Re:Yes, social media is undermining democracy
by ch33zer on Thursday July 28, 2022 @02:36PM
(#32268453)
Interestingly normal youtube recommendations continue to be pretty good, but the shorts feature is just a cesspool that's far worse than tik tok.
Re:Yes, social media is undermining democracy
by togs on Saturday July 30, 2022 @06:47PM
(#32291141)
I’m interested that your experience with YouTube recommendations contrasts so drastically with my own!
Re:Yes, social media is undermining democracy
by ch33zer on Saturday July 30, 2022 @10:15PM
(#32292528)
I watch way too much youtube, to the point that they have lots of data on what I like
Re:Yes, social media is undermining democracy
by dnissley on Thursday July 28, 2022 @05:17PM
(#32270227)
> At this very moment, the person trending highest across all social media is a sex trafficker hawking his self improvement remote mentorship thing to insecure young men
Who is this? And what platforms? I'm not seeing anything like this on fb/twtr/ig/tt/yt
Re:Yes, social media is undermining democracy
by ChadNauseam on Friday July 29, 2022 @04:38AM
(#32274472)
His name is Andrew Tate. He’s been making videos for years but blew up recently. I think his primary platform is youtube
I saw youtube's new shorts feature and clicked on it out of curiousity. It gave me a couple funny cat videos and some cooking content copied from tik tok... but after that it was just a doomscroll of the guy I'm talking about above, Prager University, etc.
Youtube has like 2 decades of data on what videos I watch, and it's definitely not that shit, but yet it's clear their algorithm is optimizing to put that in front of my eyes.