I've said it many times now: people should be avoiding "the algorithm" as much as they can on streaming and social media sites. On Facebook "avoiding the algor

I've said it many times now: people should be avoiding "the algorithm" as much as they can on streaming and social media sites. On Facebook "avoiding the algorithm" entails creating a friends list of all your friends, then using the link to that list as a portal into facebook. Posts and shares are listed in chronological order without anything missing (which is absolutely NOT true for the normal news feed, even when "chronological order" is selected). No "so-and-so commented on this" or "so-and-so liked that". Just posts and shares. Scroll through the feed until you recognize something, and you're done. On youtube, you really should be going straight to subscriptions first. If you want to look for recommendations that's perfectly fine, you can go to the home page... but don't go there by default. On reddit, I recommend using /r/all as a portal with some of the more obnoxious subreddits blocked. I'm aware that what you see is still influenced by the algorithm in these examples, but the impact is reduced by a lot. Browse with intention. Make deliberate choices. Don't just let the algorithm lead you around. Remember, "the algorithm"s on these sites aren't designed for your benefit. They're designed to increase the site's metrics. More clicks. More time on that website.