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YouTube links and embedded videos will tilt your search experience too. The problem is that the algorithm seems biased so that one or two visits to shit causes
by api 6y ago
YouTube links and embedded videos will tilt your search experience too.
The problem is that the algorithm seems biased so that one or two visits to shit causes you to fall down into a spiral of shit. That's probably because statistically when averaged across the entire YouTube user-base, shit leads to more time on the site. Shit is usually more divisive, inflammatory, etc., and negative emotions are the easiest path to engagement.
Virtually everything wrong with social media can be summarized by "negative emotions are the easiest path to engagement." Want to keep people on your site? Anger, offend, or scare them.
- Barrin92 6y ago>The problem is that the algorithm seems biased so that one or two visits to shit causes you to fall down into a spiral of shit. after months of having a fairly normal youtube experience basically only playing music I clicked on one Jordan Peterson video that was in a news article, and for the next few weeks all I got was alt-right content in my feed. I even tried to get rid of it by explicitly saying I don't want it recommended to me, which gets rid of the individual channels but similar stuff just keeps popping up. Youtube overfits what people click on so badly, I have no idea how this isn't fixable by honstly just turning the recommendation system off and just giving me random crap, even that would be an improvement.
- api 6y agoYeah I’ve had that experience too. It’s easy to see how YouTube perhaps almost single handedly caused an explosion of fascism among passive media consumers. You hit one of those videos and it rabbit holes you.