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.

  • glau@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I very much use the subscription feed. I don’t know how alone I am with this, but I usually only subscribe to channels when I want to watch almost all videos they post.

    A lot of the time if a creator gets a little bit popular they start to spam videos and that’s when I unsubscribe, even if I generally like their content. I feel like I cannot ever keep up anymore so I just watch their videos sporadically from then on.