Technology

YouTube selects what gives YouTube the most views for the longest time. If that's right wing shorts, they don't care.

That doesn't fix the out-of-the-box experience of the platform for millions, if not billions of people. Yes it's a good step to take individually, but insufficient to deal with the broader issue raised of latent alt-right propagandizing

That and a Revanced patched version of it - or better yet Piped.

Not really surprising that short video clips would be used to target people with lower critical-thinking skills and attention spans

I do that but every 30 days the short videos come back and then I have to click on the dots again. It's not difficult but it's kind of a dirty trick by YouTube. I look forward to something like peertube reaching critical mass. If YouTube continues to abuse their users, gets too spammy, gets too expensive with the paid tier, I think people will jump ship. Peertube isn't ready for prime time yet.

The problem is when channels you subscribe to pump out shorts. I use the Subscriptions page a lot and it has more and more become flooded with junk shorts that I don't care about and don't want to watch on my TV.

It doesn't seem to work for me, I also keep reporting ads and blocking ads, and they keep serving them up to me. So I have decided to disable YouTube on my phone.

It only must be extremely simplified and evoke emotional reactions. That's just basic propaganda rules. The brainrot quality of the content is a consequence of the sheer quantity of the content. You can't make that volume of content and without making fully automated ai slop.

What the experiment overlooks is that there are PR companies being paid to flood YouTube with rightwing content and are actively trying to game its algorithm. There simply isn't a left-wing with the capital to manufacture that much content. No soros-bucks for ai minions in keffiyehs talking about medicare.

Insanely, that seems to be the play. Not logic or reason, but brainrot and low blows. Which is a bit at odds with the actual desire.

I've ditched their algorithm, but I'm not going back to a text only internet. It's so much more helpful to listen while I drive or follow along with someone's screen.

I'd like to see the creators get out of youtube and make more money but I can't say I like patreon much either.

Would be cool to tie fedeverse into non-profit monetization.

Strange, I don't get anything risque, just tech videos and some improv comedy. I still don't like shorts though. I'm highly tempted to use revanced to take out the shorts section.

I never see anything like that, my recommendations are all tech, game, or stories from Reddit/etc being read. For that last one I just skip the ai generated voices and try to find people actually doing the reading. Make good background noise.

I wouldn't be against a bit of soft core porn like you describe, but I go to other sites for that

I mostly get stuff about parrots and cake decorating.