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?

  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    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!

  • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Open source alternatives are a threat. They cannot control information there. I bet all of them are blacklisted.

    • expatriado@lemmy.worldEnglish
      216·
      1 year ago

      I’m not expert, but I think among all social media, YT would be the safest against the Fediverse, due to the massive amount of storage and bandwidth it requires.

  • Maple@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    YouTube comments have always been a veiled lie. There’s some sort of algorithm at work not to mention the dislike button on comments just doesn’t work. I wouldn’t put too much thought behind it, if anything I’d say discussing it on Reddit/Twitter is a better way to get heard.

  • Drunemeton@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I tried commenting on two videos yesterday and included links to topic-related websites, and they were deleted.

    I checked the TOS and they caution about including inappropriate links in replies, but those weren’t that.

    It seems the channel can include links but users can’t. Haven’t tested it much past that point either.