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independantiste ,
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Chinese company bytedance tries to fragilise western democracies episode 1937392

archchan ,

Chinese company bytedance tries to fragilise western democracies episode 1937392

Marketsupreme ,

American company meta tries to fragilise western democracies and personal freedoms episode 1937392

demesisx ,
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I am a fairly radical leftist and a pacifist and you wouldn’t believe the amount of hoo-ra military, toxic masculinity, explosions and people dying, gun-lover bullshit the YouTube algorithm has attempted to force down my throat in the past year. I block every single channel that they recommend yet I am still inundated.

Now, with shorts, it’s like they reset their whole algorithm entirely and put it into sensationalist overdrive to compete with TikTok.

cm0002 ,

I am a fairly radical leftist and a pacifist and you wouldn’t believe the amount of hoo-ra military, toxic masculinity, explosions and people dying, gun-lover bullshit the YouTube algorithm has attempted to force down my throat in the past year. I block every single channel that they recommend yet I am still inundated.

I really want to know why their algorithm varies so wildly from person to person, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen people say this about YT.

But in comparison, their algorithm seems to be fairly good in recommending what I’m actually interested in and none of all that other crap people always say. And when it does recommend something I’m not interested in, it’s usually something benign, like a video on knitting or something.

None of this out of nowhere far right BS gets pushed to me and a lot of it I can tell why it’s recommending me it.

For example my feed is starting to show some lawn care/landscaping videos and I know it’s likely related to the fact I was looking up videos on how to restring my weed trimmer.

Telorand ,

I think it depends on the things you watch. For example, if you watch a lot of counter-apologetics targeted towards Christianity, YouTube will eventually try out sending you pro-Christian apologetics videos. Similarly, if you watch a lot of anti-Conservative commentary, YouTube will try sending you Conservative crap, because they’re adjacent and share that “Conservative” thread.

Additionally, if you click on those videos and add a negative comment, the algorithm just knows you engaged with it, and it will then flood your feed with more.

It doesn’t care what your core interests are, it just aims for increasing your engagement by any means necessary.

Tja ,

My shorts are full of cooking channels, “fun fact” spiky hair guy, Greenland lady, Michael from vsauce and aviation content. Solid 6.5/10

tordenflesk ,

That does nothing for what’s recommended.

‘Not Interested’ -> 'Tell us why -> ‘I don’t like the video’ is what works.

far_university1990 ,

𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉

Tja ,

Auf reddit hats besser funktioniert

far_university1990 ,

tja

crabonhead ,

In my experience Tiktok isn’t pushing it, YouTube shorts however very much is. For me at least

daniskarma ,

They push whoever uses more bots and pay better advertisement.

homesweethomeMrL ,

Da

far_university1990 ,

They maybe the only major party who talk what youth might want. Most other party almost ignore youth.

But then AFD basically reviving the “Hitlerjugend” (hitler youth), so that is that.

General_Effort ,

what youth might want

A pure aryan skull shape?

homesweethomeMrL ,

Oohhhhh noooooooooo The Youth aren’t getting what they Waaaaaant! Politics is bad!

Ooooh the Huge Manatee!!

Killing_Spark ,

That is such a bullshit point. “The youth” doesn’t want one homogeneous thing. The youth is just as diverse in opinions as other cohorts, maybe even more so. It is also more likely to be on more radikal Sides of the political spectrum.

far_university1990 ,

Yes, they do not want one thing. But that is what they appeal to.

Talking to the emotion of teen, completely contradicting themself, just to get some popularity point. I think this is called popularism, but not sure.

Also afd is extremely radical, so that fit.

far_university1990 ,

archive.is/55KY3

dactylotheca ,
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The same happened with the Finnish equivalent of the AfD, the Finns Party. Under 25’s are now more conservative than Millennials or iirc even Gen X which is pretty fucking wild

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