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The problem isn't the algorithm. The problem is Monetization and the incentives it creates. Been saying this for a decade.

winternett 4y ago
People just don't listen. They have no clue that most of what is playing everywhere is sponsored ads, and content promoted by the people who upload it in pretty much every niche that can make money or make someone notable. These sites have laid off a lot of their staff that once developed and maintained algorithms, and people were cheating through weak algos en masse back when sites were running wild, now the lazy solution is to sit back and collect ad money while just making bug fixes. Agreed. Monetization and aid promotion for every account is what destroyed the social media world. Now nothing grows organically and feedback/comments/reviews are regularly reflective of popularity/favorability deceit.
- autoexec 4y ago
  > They have no clue that most of what is playing everywhere is sponsored ads, and content promoted by the people who upload it. I'm always horrified at how bad people are at even recognizing an ad when they see one these days. I thought maybe it was just banner blindness, but I don't think many people even understand what an ad is. Once I had someone argue that windows 10 didn't contain any ads at all and as proof they sent me a screenshot of their start menu which sure enough was filled with ads. It was struggle to get them to accept that all the icons for apps that weren't installed and services they didn't use were ads. I've seen people insist that Netflix didn't have ads just the full screen banners for whatever they were promoting you have to scroll past to get to your list/continue watching or the "suggestions" they throw up after a show ends. If it wasn't interrupting what they were watching every 10 minutes it didn't count to them. For as much as advertising has found its way into everything, people seem to be getting worse at realizing when they're being manipulated.

winternett 4y ago

People just don't listen. They have no clue that most of what is playing everywhere is sponsored ads, and content promoted by the people who upload it in pretty much every niche that can make money or make someone notable. These sites have laid off a lot of their staff that once developed and maintained algorithms, and people were cheating through weak algos en masse back when sites were running wild, now the lazy solution is to sit back and collect ad money while just making bug fixes. Agreed. Monetization and aid promotion for every account is what destroyed the social media world. Now nothing grows organically and feedback/comments/reviews are regularly reflective of popularity/favorability deceit.

autoexec 4y ago
> They have no clue that most of what is playing everywhere is sponsored ads, and content promoted by the people who upload it. I'm always horrified at how bad people are at even recognizing an ad when they see one these days. I thought maybe it was just banner blindness, but I don't think many people even understand what an ad is. Once I had someone argue that windows 10 didn't contain any ads at all and as proof they sent me a screenshot of their start menu which sure enough was filled with ads. It was struggle to get them to accept that all the icons for apps that weren't installed and services they didn't use were ads. I've seen people insist that Netflix didn't have ads just the full screen banners for whatever they were promoting you have to scroll past to get to your list/continue watching or the "suggestions" they throw up after a show ends. If it wasn't interrupting what they were watching every 10 minutes it didn't count to them. For as much as advertising has found its way into everything, people seem to be getting worse at realizing when they're being manipulated.