Crossposted from https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1480679/google-is-testing-the-hiding-of-youtube-s-dislike-button-entirely-from-all-forms-of-vide

Source: User reports, reported on by couple of news outlets:

• Reddit: 1, 2;
• X/Twitter.

The real dislike button is removing videos from your watch history - as the watch history defines what the algorithm recommends. Curate your watch history and you can have a better experience.

The dislike button is for users telling the content creator they've made a bad video. But I believe studies have shown it can leave a bad impression of the platform on the user - that's why sites get rid of negative indicators.

My watch history is turned off.

The real dislike button is using a channel blocker, or pipepipe etc

The real dislike button is not watching YouTube.

pipepipe etc seems very not likey.

I'm still to find a platform that serves the same purpose as yt, it's my last google thing.
I had some potential options open, but then didn't. Need to look yet again.

Unsure what aspect you are looking for, but maybe #Grayjay or straight-up #RSS?

Former aggregates video and audio services, and people can make their own integrations too, and even helps with discoverability if you explore the home tab. Latter fits a similar aggregation purpose purpose, though not quite on discoverability and is more manual to use.

A balance of quantity and quality I guess, browser based, and no to low ai

I've looked a few times over the years and never found anything that ticks the boxes.

I see. In such case then, from what I've observed, the ones that get the closest are Rumble and Odysse, though both still much smaller.

odysee seems very youtube like in all the wrong ways

I will check out rumble, it isn't one I have heard of, thank you.

Mine is full of my son's Lego videos