YouTube Launches Communities, a Discord-Like Space For Creators and Fans (techcrunch.com) 14
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: At its Made On YouTube event on Wednesday, the company announced a new dedicated space for creators to interact with their fans and viewers. The space, called "Communities," is kind of like a Discord server built into a creator's channel. With Communities, YouTube is hoping creators won't need to use other platforms like Discord or Reddit in order to interact with viewers. Communities are a space for viewers to post and interact with other fans directly within a creator's channel. In the past, viewers have been limited to leaving comments on a creator's video. Now, they can share their own content in a creator's Community to interact with other fans over shared interests. For instance, a fitness creator's Community could include posts from fans who are sharing videos and photos from their most recent hike.
To start, the feature is only available to subscribers. The company sees Communities as a dedicated space for conversation and connection, while still allowing creators to maintain control over their content. Conversations in Communities are meant to flow over time, YouTube says, as they would in any other forum-style setting. The new Communities feature shouldn't be confused with YouTube's Community feature, which is a space for creators to share text and images with viewers. The feature launched back in 2016, and doesn't allow viewers to interact with each other. YouTube is testing Communities now on mobile devices with a small group of creators. The company plans to test the feature with more creators later this year before expanding access to additional channels in early 2025.
To start, the feature is only available to subscribers. The company sees Communities as a dedicated space for conversation and connection, while still allowing creators to maintain control over their content. Conversations in Communities are meant to flow over time, YouTube says, as they would in any other forum-style setting. The new Communities feature shouldn't be confused with YouTube's Community feature, which is a space for creators to share text and images with viewers. The feature launched back in 2016, and doesn't allow viewers to interact with each other. YouTube is testing Communities now on mobile devices with a small group of creators. The company plans to test the feature with more creators later this year before expanding access to additional channels in early 2025.
So... (Score:2)
It's the new place for swastikas and porn?
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The ghost of Jeff Hanneman appears and says, "Pass the beer. I'm going in."
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Ahh found the 2b2t player.
Are they going to replace the comments section? (Score:3)
Re:Are they going to replace the comments section? (Score:4, Insightful)
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This.
Why waste time on a google product? 75 percent chance anything you do with it will be wiped in a few years. And if its like discord you have to get your colleuges/friends to use it and that's a big effort to see your community go up in smoke because google.
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Especially since they are just cloning something that is already well established.
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It doesn't matter, Google will shut it down in like a year.
Maybe. It probably depends on how steadily it feeds their AI data aggregation routines. If it supplies a steady stream of bullshit, they may leave it up. They apparently aren't bright enough to realize youtube comments are not a good education, so let them enshittify their AI with it.
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Youtube censors comments and the banned words list is a secret and AI can add new ones to a list that you can never use again
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This. It's infuriating trying to comment on any controversial topic because you never know when your comment will be de-ranked, hidden or out-right deleted.
I guess the only thing they want us to "discuss" is how great the video was.
Google sucks (Score:2)
Ads are the scourge of the internet and Google is the biggest pusher of them. Screw them and their products
What year is it? (Score:2)
I like how they're pretending this is a new feature when, if you think about it, this is functionally little different than restoring the ability to privately message creators like you used to be able to do decades ago. Hey, maybe next they can restore the spam filtering they obviously don't do anymore and pretend like that's new too.
And when I am top contributor... (Score:1)
And when I am top contributor... They bury it?
No Thanx
I stick to Discord and TikTok.