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Re:Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles' by throwayws on Thursday July 16, 2020 @11:22AM (#23859905)
See TikTok [1] as an example. The idea is to mix in different content. Making the goal not to match perfectly but to match different topics.

- [1]: https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-us/how-tiktok-recommends-vide...

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Re:Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles' by Avamander on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:29PM (#23860605)
TikTok is a bad example. Claiming it's promoting "diverse content" is somehow rather funny.

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/03/tiktok-ow...

* https://www.altpress.com/news/tiktok-censorship-black-lives-...

* https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/26/tiktoks-l...

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Re:Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles' by bigpumpkin on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:46PM (#23860789)
TikTok may only allow 90% of videos, but its algorithm is biased toward exploration of random subjects.

Youtube may allow 99.9%, but its algorithm is biased toward what the user has recently watched.

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Re:Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles' by Avamander on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:46PM (#23861590)
I find diversity of opportunity more important than diversity of outcome and think of the first as actual diversity.
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Re:Mozilla project exposes YouTube's recommendation 'bubbles' by throwayws on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:48PM (#23860820)
I mean topics different from the usual exact matches. I had only that word in mind. Sorry for the confusion, I fixed it.

I didn't know about this though. Thanks for mentioning it.

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