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YouTube is doing A/B testing of the Subscriptions feed (hexbear.net)

submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by blobjim@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

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It is now in a grid layout and I can't switch it to the list view. Worse, some videos are now out of order chronologically i.e. a video from 4 hours ago appears before one from 3 hours ago.

Feels like part of the continued march towards algorithmization of every last major internet service. The ultimate goal presumably being to make it easier and easier to censor things, Facebook style.

Presumably the channel RSS feeds will continue to work...

Unfortunately video hosting is one of those services that costs a lot to run so it isn't easy to replace.

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[–] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 6 points 5 hours ago

For an individual video and such, it is very cheap. But YouTube operates at such a massive scale that storage makes up an enormous amount of their expenses. Unlike most companies, payroll is actually a tiny fraction compared to even just storage.

A big part of why alternatives don't exist is just how expensive storage is. It's why open source video systems have barely any public instances.

Other social media video places get around this by having short form videos, so they can store a lot of videos cheap. YouTube has a lot of really long videos, in addition to their short videos.