Technology

58133 readers

5448 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

671

X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad (mashable.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

179 comments fedilink hide all child comments

X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad::undefined

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He also was one of the first to master the YouTube algorithm and perfected the video format to engage viewers the most.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I agree but in a way where I absolutely hate that he did this. Mr Beast is one of the worst things to happen to YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Double edge sword. We now know better than before about how the algorithm works thanks to him. Unfortunately, that also means that others are now equipped with similar spam knowledge.