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I consistently hear people on YouTube complain that the subscribe button doesn't do anything for viewers, now that channel notifications are controlled by the bell. But it does do something: it puts the videos from that channel in your subscription feed, which is readily accessible on all versions of YouTube. So why do people act like it doesn't exist? I think it's super convenient, especially if you're subscribed to a ton of channels and don't want your notifications feed flooded with new videos.

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[–] vd1n@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

It's because the hot the button every time the channel asks them, constantly toggling it off an on.

Probably the same people who browse all on lemmy.world and complain about the garbage in "their feed".

[–] Xathonn@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly I rarely do. I almost exclusively use the for you page and click what I want to watch

[–] Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe unrelated but what I do when I find a good channel: I click their name, go to their videos tab and look if there's other good stuff. Often videos a bit older have very few views while the newer one has loads, which makes me think nobody ever clicks through all this.

But I also don't log in to Youtube. I had a separate Youtube account until they forced me to use a Google account. I can always delete my YouTube cookies when the recommendations get to shitty.

[–] TurboDiesel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I use it, but I loathe having to scroll past random text posts, pics, and shorts before getting to content I actually subscribe to.

[–] Cortell@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Seems like most people just click videos from their home page and not their subscriptions feed. If YouTube set the default page as your subscriptions we wouldn’t have that bell problem anymore but that’s not good for engagement cause people wouldn’t see different videos every time they opened YouTube so it’ll never change

[–] MrFlamey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly I try to only use the subscription feed because the home feed is addictive. I installed the unhook addon to block as many recommendations and other algorithmic things as possible, and try to just search when I want to find a particular thing.

However, sometimes I find myself running out of ideas and just disabling unhook and watching a few things from the home feed before reenabling it and going back to subscriptions only. I think if I also disabled ublock, youtube would be infinitely less addictive, since it would shove ads in my face constantly, and I'd soon get fed up.

[–] SillyBanana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I don't use YouTube website at all. I'm not even logged in there. I use purely RSS feeds of my selected channels, and my RSS reader embeds those videos in its web UI. I hate all the noise of the standard YT.

[–] borkcorkedforks@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Over time that subscriber section has become less prominent. At one time it was the way to find content you wanted to see. I think most people now just use the feed YouTube gives you.

Subscribing does seem to affect the algorithm. If nothing else it should help the creator pay the bills so you can keep getting videos from them.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get too many Notifs from the YouTube app for channels I don't want. I use Newpipe Subscriptions, I can refresh feeds from multiple channels whenever I choose.

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have subscribed to so many channels (like, 800 of them by this point), that sometimes my subscription feed turns to shit, so I simply decide not to use it anymore.

Nowadays I only use it when I want to access my list of subscriptions.

[–] Blastoid5000@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

It's all I use.

[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use it to catch up on the latest vids from account im following. Occasionally I’ll also browse the algorithm feed as well.

[–] kadu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

When the home page defaulted to the recommended view rather than subscriptions, many years ago, I simply saved the URL for the subscription feed as a favorite and that's it. I never had issues, all videos from all my subscriptions show up.

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Well I’ll be damned!

[–] iod@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe i misunderstood your question but i've also heard many say they weren't getting all the content from the channels they subbed to exactly on the subscriptions feed. Personally i've never noticed this but that's why some channels started recommending to also hit the bell.

[–] Ducks@ducks.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I both use subscriptions and watch what the algo shows me. According to a lot of big YouTubers I watch, their viewership mostly comes from people who find them organically and only a smaller amount of their views come from subscribers but sponsors like to see high subscriber counts as well as high view counts.

[–] vortexal@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't checked it out in a while but the problem I had with the subscriptions feed was that a lot of videos don't show up there. Sometimes it would take weeks for a new upload to actually show up in the feed, while some channels just never appeared there. IIRC, YouTube stated that this was at least partially intentional.

I checked some channels and I didn't see any videos that were missing but I don't really have the patients to check every channel I'm subbed to. Although, I'm subbed to over 150 channels on YouTube but the feed didn't seem to have a lot of videos posted in the past week.

Regardless of whether they fixed it or not, assuming YouTube still offers them, the RSS feeds were always reliable for me.

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