Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead

• chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Subscribe to the stuff you care about and ignore everything else. Check the other feeds only when you’re looking for something new.

  The recommendation algorithm of YT is actually reasonably good at finding stuff worth watching. Whatever janky trash Reddit calls an algorithm is clearly serving the company more than anyone else.

  Lemmy doesn’t even have that kind of an algorithm, so you’ll have to check places like !communitypromo@lemmy.ca when you’re looking for new and interesting stuff. Reading the all feed is an exercise in futility IMO, unless you’re really interested in random memes.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I partly watched 1 “psychology” video, it was branded as Karl Jung so mebbe interesting, but it was some “intelligent people suffer more” bullshit, and now I have had to manually block over 10 channels of that type (9 signs a woman likes you, How to know someone takes advantage of you! etc etc) to just “get back” to being served only 4-5 of my 40+ subscriptions.

    So IMO it’s worse than just serving me what I asked for…

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    • chaosCruiser@futurology.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That used to be a problem like 5-10 years ago. If you clicked something, YT used to think you must love that stuff, and would never forget that unfortunate click. Nowadays though, downvoting and watch time are taken more seriously by the algorithm. If I find some trash, I just give it a thumbs down and stop watching immediately. Seems to work pretty well for me.

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