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Some of that is from management being strict about following the procedures we have to make sure every step is followed or we get in trouble so even if someone seems knowledgable we have to treat them like they aren't

as a former tech support person I think the reason why its usually like that is that most of the people who call in are people don't know how to use a computer at least it was for the company I worked at

Why were these things allowed before?

Wtf

Yea I was annoyed that they were making me sign up for google+ for my youtube account so I never tried it I just set it up so I could keep using youtube.

try following hashtags

and then if you suggest they try mastodon they won't even consider it

I mean legaly you're right but free speech as a concept still applies to private companies they just dont have to follow it

They made the admins sign nda's so its unlikely we will hear anything about it

I don't expect my data to be fully deleted in a centralized system either. even if it was deleted from the central server someone might have made an archive of it

and reddit is definitely guilty of this since they were bringing back peoples deleted comments and accounts

You remove the downvotes you juat get people more people in the comments with "you're an idiot" or whatever instead of just a downvote.

It's not like those kinds of comments are really that nuanced or helpfull either.

I think the us is worse because I live there they might use this data against me what can china do to me?

If you live In china though...

I feel like the problem with moving away from youtube is that the larger chanels making money off of it arent going to want to move because they wont get monitized if they do. If they do move it will probably be to another corperate platform.

I really dont like what youtube is planning on doing by restricting adblockers and adding more unskippable ads though. Hopefully that moves at least some people to peertube.