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YouTube's algorithm is more and more disgustingly reactionary. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by throwmunist@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I use YouTube without an account most of the time either through a browser (incognito) or NewPipe or PipePipe (Android), which means that the algorithm doesn't adapt to me.

So, every time I see a video, I know that the recommends are unadulterated algorithmic rage. I may be watching a gardening video, there will be some "Women are Evil" type of video, or "random guy talks about why [thing that women do] is wrong, bad and immoral." I am even seeing a comeback of those "sjw cringe compilation" videos - what's this, 2016???

There are also A LOT, and I mean, a fuckton lot, of trad Catholic content being pushed. Mind you, I even set my YouTube to different countries and languages, and it's being spilled that way too.

Fucking nightmare.

I don't want to end it in a low note, so I will also acknowledge that there's quite a bit of left, openly socialist, communist content, too. 10 years ago there was none of that, the right could roam free (I even identified as one, lmao). Contradictions of capitalism, I guess.

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[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

It's getting really bad in my opinion.

I use ublock and other widgets to give a me a "clean" slate every time I go to YouTube. The first things you see are all the "high engagement" (Of course not high-quality") stuff. YouTube's algorithm (and most other ones I assume) push this stuff in front of you because it fuckin' hates you and think its userbase are nothing but braindead zombies. They know people will "engage" with it so they shove in the front.

They think the average user is stupid and puts stupid things in front of them. It's almost out of a mid 90's sci-fi movie, but these MEGACORPS really do whatever the market responds to with zero thought of anything other than ad-revenue and time on platform. It's almost boring how plain and straightforward the reason is.

Modern "platform services" paradigms really do feed off the rot they create. I hate it so much, and my tech background tells me they are cooking up new ways to make it 420^69% worse.

[–] FanofOatmeal@hexbear.net 8 points 2 days ago

What I've noticed lately is a lot of rage comments in news stories. It'll always be something like:

"Illegal migrant kills woman in car accident" with 90% of the comments calling for the electric chair. And most of these comments are from decade-old youtube accounts for what it's worth.

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