Let me present to you a recent youtube video from Fox “News” that I ran across in my feed, “Hormuz clash ERUPTS as Trump threatens LETHAL force”. 1 hour old and over 800 comments, with about 80% of comments being from bots created within a day and containing the word “Grokarium” (I’m guessing some type of Elon Crypto scam).
I’ve seen calls before for people to engage others in spaces like these to push back on the narrative they’re presenting and the bubble they exist in. Don’t waste your time in a place like that, instead focus on those around you or smaller online spaces like Lemmy for instance. I find a lot of the discussions I see helpful for how to approach and inform others that may be out of the loop but a place like youtube just isn’t real and a waste of your time to comment.
the same problem plagues instagram, twitter and other major commercial social media platforms. my verdict: use fedi.
Are there any online spaces that aren’t filled with bots and clankers?
the fediverse is pretty good 🥰
Also seemingly dead places like InsaneJournal are a good place to avoid bots. Ain’t no sane person is paying for an account only to be banned, in the case of IJ.
I also haven’t seen many ( if any ) bots on SpaceHey either, so maybe we’re good there for now, too.
🤞it remains that way.
They’re just less interesting and maybe that’s good enough. The way the fediverse is architected makes it especially susceptible to bots.
So anywhere people can make money. Got it, avoiding capitalist hellscapes from now on.
If you figure out how to do that with out dying let me know
Just treat them like hostile zones and minimize exposure
Sir would you be interested in buying a bridge, you see am a Nigerian prince who needs to buy oil urgently and am willing to depart from it for just deactivation of your account
There are bots that show up here every now and then, but not many.
Lemmy is full of bots and rage bait accounts.
With the exception of some niche decades-old chatrooms that have a max userbase of like 40 people, probably not.
AFAIK this has been the case since YT early days. It was never a space for discourse. Previously limited to trolls, now they have AI to argue with. If you want to discuss a YT video, your best option is to post it somewhere you personally find discourse is decent enough for that topic. My 2 cents
Im kinda surprised google allows commenting right after creation.
Oh yeah. It’s encouraged.
Maybe also worth mentioning is that FOX NEWS was created as a propaganda outlet right from its inception, and so anything related to it might be (or is) of highly dubious quality.
I’ve noticed this as well, YouTube enshittified so much more in the past few weeks. Unusable.
Even under completely unrelated vids and if you’ve never watched any orange man slop, it shows up.
I know when it’s time to leave YT.
Every comment section is xenophobic
Every problem is the fault of “immigrants, democrats, black people”
Japan very civilized because… “it’s homogenous society, unlike the US”… 🧐
CCP Shills
Far-right falsely accusing all Chinese diaspora of being CCP Spies… 🙄
And mean like… you got both Tankies and Sinophobes on one platform… oh boy… 👀
I wonder what happens when you mix the two… oh, behold
The Sinophobic Tankie? (There are white male foreigners that shills for CCP while simultaneously has horrible Chinese language skills and looks down on the actual average Chinese people, especially that they look down on those that don’t speak English, and also has Asian fetish and are mysogynistic towards Chinese women… aka: the “sexpats”)
YSK that people who use security hardened computers cannot watch You Tube.
Everyone should at least mirror to PeerTube for accessibility
More creators on YouTube needs to know this, but YouTube can shadow ban people for no clear reason and you as the creator wouldn’t even know your audience members simply can’t reach you.
Or maybe you did blocked me from your channel. I have done nothing but support you and it still hurts.
