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So apparently youtube, or its comment system, is against the fediverse

Over the time new youtube videos crop up talking about reddit, twitch and twitter issues. And in those comment sections I always like to spread the word of alternatives (like the fediverse). But whenever I do, those comments get quietly removed even though they seem to be posted in the first place.

Whenever I try to add further details, for example name dropping lemmy/bin pixelfeed peertube and mastodon, to previously posted comments those error out and gets deleted entirely.

Anyone else made that observation?

CookieJarObserver ,
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Youtube comments get removed for whatever reason, they are worthless anyway. That’s why many creators had their own subs.

thegiddystitcher ,
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I’m not saying this is untrue, it may only apply to certain combinations of words or maybe even only channels over a certain size. But I’ve been chatting to a couple people over on YT about Mastodon the last few days, and nothing untoward happened to our convos.

That said, a lot of the time perfectly normal comments get flagged as spam for literally no reason at all, so it could just be general incompetence rather than malicious targeting.

madjo ,
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Do you add links in your YouTube comments? If so, then that’s the reason. Don’t add links in YouTube comments.

DmMacniel OP ,

I didn't, simply mentioned those alternatives.

madjo ,
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That’s really weird then

NecoArcKbinAccount ,
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Youtube removes posts with links in them, try posting without them and the comment should stay up.

Silverseren ,

Yeah, that's always been the problem and it's really annoying when getting into a discussion (or argument) on a scientific topic and you can't link to sources to debunk claims.

VanillaGorilla ,

Oh god, I can't even imagine trying to argue over a scientific topic on YouTube. I hate the commenting system and the are so many trolls and idiots.

1chemistdown ,
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Do not try to reason/argue with people who did not reason themselves into their view point. The most successful way to get peoples views to change is having a conversation that they lead and your gently steer.

genoxidedev1 ,
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The spez and Elon Muskler cucks do not contain themselves to only Reddit threads

zelifcam ,
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That’s a pretty big claim. Any proof?

zelifcam ,
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That’s a pretty big claim. Any proof?

zelifcam ,
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Proof?

DmMacniel OP ,

I can't give any proof since I didn't expect this to happen in the firstplace. If it would I would have screencapped it for sure.

zelifcam ,
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Proof?

Pregnenolone ,

I have never read a YouTube comment in my whole life that has ever demonstrated any value to anyone or anything ever

k0mprssd ,

i noticed this too. i watched multiple videos about how big tech is ruining the internet and i always comment telling folks to come to the fediverse, but whem i came back later to check on it i noticed my comment just want there. maybe a bug or maybe google is trying to stifle the open internet?

felixculpa , (edited )
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Such news further radicalizes me against GAFAM and motivates me to embrace open source alternatives even more. Thank you, GAFAM, for destroying yourselves.

tallwookie ,
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they’re competing platforms - of course those comments are going to get deleted.

ItsaB3AR ,

How does Lemmy or Mastadon compete with YouTube?

DmMacniel OP ,

PeerTube would be indirect competition with YouTube.

ItsaB3AR ,

That is fair, just odd to banish all mention of FOSS or federated services. If it is what they are doing, they don’t want people getting that kind of mindset I suppose.

DmMacniel OP ,

It simply struck me as odd today; dunno if they are constantly doing this.

chonglibloodsport ,

I wouldn’t worry about it too much. YouTube comments are the absolute bottom of the barrel in terms of quality engagement. They mostly exist to give people a place to vent when the video creator annoys them!

klyde ,
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I miss the old YouTube comments. Just like Reddit. Nothing of use anymore and if there is you have to scroll for ages to find it.

LemmynySnicket ,

Are you kidding? How are you going to say that with great comments like random "RonPaul2012"s everywhere?

JoCrichton ,

Don’t post links Otherwise comments get deleted very quick

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