• Zagorath@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    I can’t say I disagree with you. The thumbnails and titles are sometimes a bit clickbaity. But they don’t let anyone join the site as a creator unless they have faith in the actual content of the videos. They’re creators who sometimes use clickbaity thumbnails because that’s just essential to surviving the YouTube algorithm, and the Nebula version usually just takes the same title and thumbnail from YouTube. But it’s never the sort of clickbait where a clickbaity thumbnail was used to trick you into watching actual garbage content—the content is always high quality.

    I wish they’d tone it down for the Nebula version, but that’s an extra amount of work for honestly very little extra value, so I understand why they don’t.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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      Fully agree. The videos especially are generally high quality regardless of how they’re dressed up, although i’ve found some creators use different thumbnails and video titles which gets confusing when trying to mark as watched in NewPipe afterwards

      This was pretty much my response to the user but didn’t feel like typing it out. Thanks for reading my mind 😁

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      They’re creators who sometimes use clickbaity thumbnails because that’s just essential to surviving the YouTube algorithm, and the Nebula version usually just takes the same title and thumbnail from YouTube.

      Oh. So they’re often just double dipping with the same content? That’s even worse.

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        1 year ago

        Huh? What are you talking about? Nebula has always been a place to see YouTube content ad-free, sometimes with bonus content or earlier than on YouTube. That’s like…its defining feature.