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📝 I could just share a link to Marques Brownlee’s video and say, “Hey I thought this was good. You might too.” But turns out I had a lot I wanted to say and think through, so it turned into a blog post. blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/dear-so...

blog.jim-nielsen.comDear Software MakersMarques Brownlee just released a video essay titled “Dear YouTube” . I loved it. He talks about how YouTube is going to start shipping this new feature where…

Jim Nielsen

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lol bluesky suggested a translation, so i had to click it...

CodeMonument

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Haha, that’s so funny. 😆 The news of a YouTube A/B testing feature where really new to me yesterday so I freaked out a little. My brother does a LOT of fact checking on x, facts about climate change for instance. And when we‘ll not know anymorethat the thing we watched is the same thing another

CodeMonument

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Person watched, we‘d loose all our common ground for debates. This common ground is already quite small with some people and loosing the „we saw the same thing“ basis of arguments will basically create ultra information bubbles. I‘m legit scared of that. This is not a problem with a yt feature

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CodeMonument

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anymore, it’s a threat to our social structure and democracy itself. 🫠