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> How do you think the average subscriber of Markiplier, Pewdiepie or Logan Paul would feel about that? I don't care about them. People can do what they want.
by betwixthewires 5y ago
> How do you think the average subscriber of Markiplier, Pewdiepie or Logan Paul would feel about that?
I don't care about them. People can do what they want. I'm not trying to revolutionize the world. I'm just trying to live life the way I want to and help people who are interested in doing things that I do.
It doesn't require you to be a techie to copy paste a URL. It's as easy as adding a contact on your phone.
I watched an interview with Jaron Lanier yesterday actually talk about YouTube recommendations, he talks about an experiment, click the top recommendation and let it play 10 times and see what you get. You have to keep in mind just because they've been helpful a few times doesn't mean they're more helpful than no curation at all. Confirmation bias exists. Remember YouTube before Google owned it? Most of the content was not as good as it is now but it was still much easier to find new interesting things. That algorithm is superior to anything that's been implemented since, and honestly every iteration makes it worse. The fundamental difference with it was that it recommended based on what other people watched, not based on some hand waving about getting to know you and your preferences.
If everything were distributed across ten platforms then viral spread of content could only occur organically. That would be amazing.