Toxic positivity. I’m not a fan of “your opinion doesn’t count unless you agree with me” and this is just a social media platform saying the same thing. But I’m grateful for the Return YouTube Dislike browser plug-in/add-on so that you can have some point of reference among perspectives outside one’s own. If a video has 300 likes, you might think it’s a fine video and you’ll watch it thinking “wow 300 people endorsed this”. If a video has 300 likes and 500 dislikes, though, you at least KNOW “oh that’s at least one red flag. I shall invest more effort than usual into being skeptical and mindful, and more effort into thinking critically as well, as I watch this.”

If i see a ton of dislikes on a video whose topic is one of the new reich’s designated scapegoats, the dislike count may in fact be a factor that INCREASES my favorability toward it, because chuds brigading something means it upsets them.

For a long time after they removed the 5 star system, if you subscribed to a channel via RSS, it would show you the like/dislike data for videos as a 5 star rating. You can’t see it easily any more but I suspect, due to tech debt, youtube’s internals are still using the 5 star rating.

The biggest loss here was the neutral Futurama video being unable to be balanced

Do what I do, stop liking the videos. If they won’t count the downvotes, don’t contribute to the upvotes.

Unupvote is doubleplus ungood.

The way short format works is that it doesn‘t need a downvote button to rope you in and keep you scrolling. Avoid it like the plague.

Why are you crosspost karma farming, it’s lemmy karma doesn’t matter

The humans can’t downvote the AI slop videos? 🤔

In my version they also moved the upvote count so you can barely see it anymore. Its not attached to the like button, but instead is hidden with the view count