TheirTube – How do the recommended videos look on their Youtube home page?

Re:TheirTube – How do the recommended videos look on their Y... by masswerk on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:38PM (#23988691)

My experience is completely to the contrary. It's just the same videos over and over again. (Apparently, there are just two new videos published on YT over an average week. I wonder, how they are still thriving.) Discoverability is only by text search. If I watch a video, it gets added to the recommendations (as I ought to re-watch it instantly.) It's even worse with the new interface and the "recently added" section gone. – Apparently, my very own bubble is my own past, exclusively. Completely broken.

I've been experiencing this for years and it's worse to a critical point with the notion of recentness gone.

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Re:TheirTube – How do the recommended videos look on their Y... by abraxas on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @02:59PM (#23990369)

same here. Complete shit show. The videos I watch a lot of relate to retro-computing and programming retro machines. You'd think that's a pretty broad topic to base recommendations on. Nope. It's the same dozen videos over and over in my recommendation list from the same handful of youtubers. It's pathetic and seemingly getting worse.

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