god i can't imagine getting politics on tiktok i thank goddess every day i'm well in the confines of booktok, piratetok, hazbintok, and cattok.
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The children will defend tiktok with their lives, crying about how it doesn't matter non-allied foreign powers can manipulate the algos and narratives.
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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
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.
That does nothing for what's recommended.
'Not Interested' -> 'Tell us why -> 'I don't like the video' is what works.
My shorts are full of cooking channels, "fun fact" spiky hair guy, Greenland lady, Michael from vsauce and aviation content. Solid 6.5/10
I get all cooking, history, and movie reviews: Max Miller, Red Letter Media, Behind the Bastards, and four-hour history/archaeology documentaries
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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.
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.
Maybe it depends on what you watch. I use Youtube for music (only things that I search for) and sometimes live streams of an owl nest or something like that.
If I stick to that, the recommendations are sort of OK. Usually stuff I watched before. Little to no clickbait or random topics.
I clicked on one reaction video to a song I listened to just to see what would happen. The recommendations turned into like 90% reaction videos, plus a bunch of topics I've never shown any interest in. U.S. politics, the death penalty in Japan, gaming, Brexit, some Christian hymns, and brand new videos on random topics.
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.
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They push whoever uses more bots and pay better advertisement.
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In my experience Tiktok isn't pushing it, YouTube shorts however very much is. For me at least
Chinese company bytedance tries to fragilise western democracies episode 1937392
American company meta tries to fragilise western democracies and personal freedoms episode 1937392
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~~Chinese~~ company ~~bytedance~~ tries to fragilise ~~western~~ democracies episode 1937392
Logically the number should be higher than the previous comments (just sayin').
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Auf reddit hats besser funktioniert
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