It could arguably be worse.

Yep. This is the first legitimate “YouTube premium sucks” I’ve seen because it’s not holding up their end of the transaction.

I haven’t seen this happen to me yet and I use YouTube on my PC, my phone, and my TV via Alexa.

I remember having a bus come every hour. If you miss that bus, then oops you’re an hour late for work.

If you run 5 minutes late in your car, then you are 5 minutes late for work.

Also if you have to take 3 or so busses to connect somewhere, depending on how the scheduling worked out, you could get unlucky and have an hour wait between bus 1 & 2 and an hour wait between bus 2 & 3.

Taxis cost a decent amount of money here.

Uber/Lyft/etc are hit and miss. App says if you need to be somewhere at 9am, to request the ride at like 8:30 or whatever. And when you do, you don’t get anyone showing up or someone will grab your ride, not come to you for 10 minutes, and then put your request for a ride back out there for someone else to grab.

“I’d like to order the newest chip you got. The Beyond Plus Ultra Core Ultra 5+ Supreme Deluxe. No, I will not accept the Beyond Plus Ultra Core Ultra 5 Supreme Deluxe. That is last gen garbage from last week.”

I’m only guessing, but I assume email is likely to help cut down on spam bots. Maybe? (Someone do tell me if that’s wrong. I wouldn’t mind learning something!)

I know some users here say seeing who upvotes promotes transparency. Maybe you’re less likely to upvote some hatespeech if you’re attached to it and not doing so anonymously. Which then means it gets less traction and the user feels less welcome. Which curbs it.

But then privacy is important, too. There’s nothing wrong with me going to the adult store and buying a gimp suit for myself with the Anal Blaster Master 3000: Destroyer of Rims vibrating dildo pack. But I also don’t need my neighbors or family to know. Just like I don’t need people to know I upvoted that really hot video of a man smearing chunky peanut butter on his incredibly hairy chest as a girl tries to lick it off.

I’m sticking around for now and seeing if things either change (like if the users for upvoted etc get hashed or something for example) and how things end up feeling in the long run with or without those changes.

This post seems like a good reminder for everyone that people can see who upvoted, downvoted, and boosted any post and comment by clicking “more” and “activity”.

Do with this information as you will.

u/spez, you listening?!?

Clearly he hasn’t for even a brief moment.

Is this how boost is intended or just part of the broken system while things get under control?

I know like on mastodon, boost is basically retooting. Would me boosting something show somewhere on my profile? I guess I can look at your profile after this and see if the boost shows up on yours lol.