youtube’s recommendation algorithm is really bad now. more of exactly the same after one view. swings way too much.


All about playlists.


i thought that was you in the notifications. heyyyy. 🎈


same experience


i turned it off. was getting harder to find new content


What’s your Damus purple number?


You can disable that in settings and only get videos from searches or subscriptions


I know... I've been thinking about making multiple accounts that focus on different things, but it's way too cumbersome. Maybe it's just a sign that it is time to move away from the platform.


algos reflect internal culture.


Watch all videos through put.io—it’s much less chaotic.


Designed to slowly remove one’s ability to seek and choose new information


huh. i do not have that problem.


Same here.


turning off watch history disables the algo feed

Video Encyclopedia >>> Internet Television


It’s kinda annoying. If my friend sends me a vid once about something, my whole recommendation becomes about that.


Newpipe fixes this 😉
https://newpipe.net/


NewPipexSponsorBlock, FreeTube (with Sponsor block) and Invidious (on my own instance) are the best ways to use YouTube (for me at least).
And of course if a content is on PeerTube, I will use it in priority. If the creator had Bitcoin Lightning for donation, I try to support.


Same


Where’s the nostr for YouTube


Yep. It used to be so good. I wonder what happened.


Not just YouTube though, just set up a new profile on Spotify, Apple Music etc. And click on a random pop playlist. If it doesn’t replay an Ed Sheeran song for at least 5 times in an hour or two then I don’t know anything. 🤷♀


From: nostr:npub1vxpwwydpmmc4usmxf2zkr8shdjq888g532ydyls3nadxxd9wyx5ssjq5nd


100% they ruined it
 Was perfect 6-8 months ago. It was the only also that served me well.


Flare fixes this 🔥 https://www.flare.pub/


It’s gone down hill over the last 9 months for sure.


It's always something dumb excited face bitcoin now


Ever since they stopped listing number of thumbs down and started doing shorts... Sucks more everyday


must be a big swinger- primarily engagement functions Veni, vidi, vici.


I wish they had an algorithm reset button because sometimes I need to watch a video and I don't want that video impacting what Youtube recommends me.


Don't forget X. It now shows me scams and acoounts I don't follow under my follows.


Have you tried tik tok?


(I would like to know the answer to this question).


I accidentally clicked a video once.  I've regretfully become the creator's #1 fan.


I only ever use YouTube with the Unhook browser extension now. The experience without it is kinda garbage otherwise.


youtube’s recommendation algorithm is really bad now. more of exactly the same after one view. swings way too much.


Depends on the hardware


I delete cookies after every use.


If you clear cookies on exit and binge a couple of videos by channels you like once in a while it gives a really cool video. Been forever since I watched vids signed in so can't speak to it's tailored algorithm


Totally noticed this.


YouTube thinks I'm a toilet repair aficionado after that one time I needed a quick help...


They need to fix that. ba dum tss!


YouTube has been showing cute recommendations lately 💖


nah it’s recursive


They don't bother about the correctness of the algorithm. Somehow they just want to hook up their viewers


We need a new platform


I look at 2 crypto explainers and it's vacinees are changing YOUR DNA TOSEND MONEY for WaR for a week. Seriously, they need to rein that in a bit.


I don't think we all realise how much YouTube matters.

"With the war outside his home, he spent much of his time indoors watching YouTube videos, lost in its “recommended” algorithm. One day he was watching a film produced by one of Russia’s top propagandists titled Batya (or Dad). It was about Alexander Zakharchenko, who served as the Kremlin-appointed leader of the occupied Donetsk region from 2014 until he was assassinated in a café bombing in 2018. When the movie ended, YouTube recommended a pro-Kyiv film about a brutal and decisive battle between Ukrainian and Russian forces in August 2014. Kolya watched once, then again. “Ilovaisk 2014. Donbas Battalion” tells the story of Ukrainian volunteer troops trying to hold the eastern town of Ilovaisk in August 2014, while besieged by Russian forces and their separatist proxy fighters. Scores of Ukrainian fighters would be killed when Russia reneged on its promise to allow them safe passage through a “humanitarian corridor” out of the encirclement. The battle turned the tide of the war in Russia’s favour and led to a controversial ceasefire that gave Moscow time to regroup and continue its invasion while proving to Kyiv that Putin could never be trusted.

The film led Kolya down another YouTube rabbit hole. When he came up for air, he says, he was “pro-Ukrainian”."

https://on.ft.com/3w41rGp