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It is now in a grid layout and I can't switch it to the list view. Worse, some videos are now out of order chronologically i.e. a video from 4 hours ago appears before one from 3 hours ago.

Feels like part of the continued march towards algorithmization of every last major internet service. The ultimate goal presumably being to make it easier and easier to censor things, Facebook style.

Presumably the channel RSS feeds will continue to work...

Unfortunately video hosting is one of those services that costs a lot to run so it isn't easy to replace.

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[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

In many ways, YouTube sucks.

They're where video makers can make money though, so it's where videos are posted, so we largely just have to live with them. I exclusively use Invidious though, which makes it a lot more reasonable, though far from perfect.

YouTube also has an insane usership. Unlike a lot of social media, it's not just young people, it's all ages, toddlers to elderly. And with young people, basically all of them use it. More than 99.5% percent of American teens regularly use YouTube.

[-] Spongebobsquarejuche@hexbear.net 14 points 2 days ago

It’s invaluable though, because of the ppl that have posted how to replace the timing chain on an 93’ Corolla.

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