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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t know what you’re talking about. I love my reccomended videos. I just watched a video about the reasons so many old subway stations use tile on the walls.

  Spoiler alert, it’s because in the early 19th century these stations were poorly lit, and white tile reflects light. So it made a small amount of light act as a bigger source of light. Plus it doesn’t degrade and break down like paint or wood does over time.

  Just one example of something that I would have never even wondered, but now I watched an interesting video explaining it. There was more to it than that, but I’m not going to go point by point of the video.

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  • benignintervention@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I never spent enough time on YouTube for it to develop its algorithm for me. I watch like 2 videos a week maybe, usually searching for something specific, and most of the recs for me have always been obscure clickbait I’m not interested in seeing

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  • Devmapall@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s the type of stuff I love YouTube for. I don’t watch it like I used to but when I do it’ll usually recommend me something else I’d enjoy.

    …in addition to shorts I don’t want to watch and tons of videos I’ve already watched. At least I don’t get the right wing trash most people get.

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  • CMLVI@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My recommended is decent but every now and then it’ll try to throw some weird shit in there. Loves recommending me off-shoot Fox channels because I have the main one blocked. Seems like every few months it pops up. But yeah, I get a lot of MTB, Motocross, and OSRS stuff cause it’s what I tend to watch. Some random car YouTubers (Rob Dahm ILY) and random video essays about interesting stuff.

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    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh…yeah. I don’t get ANY of that. I get weird random shit, and I’m like “Yeah, sure, let’s watch this video on the mating habbits of ladybugs! Why not?”

      Spoiler alert, the concept of cuckolding absolutely exists in the world of ladybugs. She makes her mate watch as she fucks other ladybugs. No, I’m not joking. That’s a thing. Thanks youtube!

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