Well, it is not something new that current social media and software in general sucks to say the least. I don’t care about new features and other stuff I did not asked for. There are so many issues I have no clue where to start.
How is that whenever youtube does something, we expect nothing, yet somehow youtube finds the way to disappoint us anyway?
Alright, let me start. Youtube shove shorts instead of regular videos on my main page, despite I never watch them. I ignore it and I try to hide it whenever I can. Youtube automatically translates videos from languages I know (such as english). This was returning issue and I could not turn that „feature” off. Regardless of annoyed public, braindead decisionmakers kept that feature for months before it faded into oblivion. But regardless of that, there are still some videos automatically translated by AI. Why do I want that? Why can’t I turn that off? Why youtube shoves me features I did not asked for? Also somehow my complaint valuated google support rules. Too bad I don’t know what rule exactly I violated, but anything that vaguely points at direction that might or might not contain violent content such as criticism and admiting that everything about youtube SUCKS is just too much for the circle of shared masturbation called google.
Now about the community standards.
Have anyone thought to him/herself that youtubes community standards reflects you? Your thinking? Like – as the cartoon creator I stumbled on hidden comments, because algorhytm censored them for me. I didn’t even know they exist. They were hidden from all. No warning, just person who wrote not even vulgar comment with his word hidden by a algorhytm. Now think to yourself – how many comments are hidden like that? Not even spam comments, not even ads or anything. Just regular comments hidden because they were… What exactly? Why they were hidden? What did the autors do? Nobody knows.
Now think about forbidden words. Youtube silences everything related topics of violence or death. There are videos where weapons or alcohol are blurred. What kind of community or culture is that? Why we can’t talk about things that are not nice? What kind of people would that bred? Nothing worth of discussion, nothing worth of second thought. One big waste of time, effort and ability to think for yourself.
Before I forget, how can once every blue moon youtube can screw one feature to the point of unusability?
Recently because of some two-step security or something I could not upload new videos to my 2nd channel. I get it, I’m exposed. I don’t care, let me upload video. But no! I can’t just refresh this upload page. This two step security will be there again. I can’t dismiss it. I can’t close it. I can’t skip it. I can do nothing, but do that regardless of my free will. What sort of stupid incompetent !@%^&$#!& is this? There are people who are paid for this, while others are fired because of AI reasons. My god.
Alright, now let me rant Instagram and Facebook. Even though there is little left for me to rant.
It’s not surprise Facebook is utter slop. Site where you’re supposed to see your friends posts is now full of garbage and AI slop. It hurts. Whenever I visit this forbidden waste dumb I see same and same people uploading variations of same maps altered by AI. It’s not smart. It’s not informative. It’s not funny. It’s not. But for some reason I have to see this every time. Do I really have to block the autor to not see their posts? For some reason Instagram does not have this issue. Posts there are actually funny and on point. But for whatever reason Facebook thinks I’m interested in matters like my friend posting comment on completely random irrelevant post. My other friend having birthday yesterday. My friends being interested in events I can’t even see, because it redirects me to the completely irrelevant site, where I can’t see what kind of events are they interested in exactly. I can write entire rant on how badly Facebook is designed, but does it matter? Does anyone cares? Is there anyone for the disscusion? For the rant you can’t rant on reddit or any lame forum? Who knows…
In case of Instagram there is less to rant on. I like Instagram. Algorhytm gives me good and funny stuff. I’m rarely disappointed. Every comment is displayed. There are dumb images in every comment. I can’t rant how much I want and people will like my comments. Very satisfying. But for the love of god… Why are settings so horribly designed? Why is that every time I want to change something in settings, I have to look up to the internet to find some posts from years ago pointing to the settings no longer existing? Why do I have to look up to the internet to find seemingly easy answer just to found out it was changed and it’s no longer the case? Why does it happen everywhere? Why does the good old working customer support now is just another AI slop? Why I can’t contact support regularly and report common issue? And why does the customization is dead? I can rant on that matter for ages and probably will do. I hate what happened over the decades to the old internet. And it’s dead I tell you. Alright, enough on that.
Google is easy pick to rant on. Usually 5 matches on search are sponsored stuff. Unrelated to the matter. Much often than not I found seemingly correct link just to found out some irrelated search on other site which has not the answer or the product I’m looking for. Why I can’t talk about this? I’ve been tricked and my time was wasted. I hate when this happened. It’s useless. It’s not helping. It’s not profiting anyone. Why to do this? I fucking hate this economy. I almost want to invent new words to call this. Now on google images. I can’t search correct images. I can’t extend search. Graphics display is limited to few options, compared to the old infinite search. Not only that, but now you can’t even properly display image. You can’t display image, but rather you’ll be redirected to the site. Well, with that amount of trickery and straight up deception, google is on the straight path to find itself replaced by any competitor which will do anything google is no longer capable of doing.
I would like to rant on the google customer support and any other customer support overall, but I think it’s a good idea to write separate post for that.
Alright, that’s all I believe.