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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by TuringNYC on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:51AM (#33528263)
A bit of a tangent, but YouTube had sucked me into hours of economic doomscrolling a day. I even purchased the premium tier to avoid ads. Then suddenly two months ago they changed some algo and all the good videos are gone, along with most of my engagement.

The lesson I learned: Even if I find magic, magic can quickly disappear with a new production release.

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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by therealdrag0 on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @02:35AM (#33528461)
Interesting. I haven’t experienced that. I have premium too. But mostly I have my subscriptions which the algorithm doesn’t impact; it just riffs on what’s already there: education/cooking/exercise/comedy.
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Re:TikTok’s Greatest Asset Isn’t Its Algorithm–It’s Your Phone by jquery on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @01:54AM (#33528277)
I'll agree here, the algo has changed, but maybe not for the worse. I am doomscrolling less, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can't be healthy to constantly be doomscrolling.
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