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Dunno. I spent a few days diving into TikTok out of a sense of curiosity and a desire to "stay in touch". I found it got weird quite quickly without any consci
by andybak 3y ago
Dunno. I spent a few days diving into TikTok out of a sense of curiosity and a desire to "stay in touch".
I found it got weird quite quickly without any conscious input on my part. Animal cruelty, conspiracy stuff and things that YouTube has never suggested.
- AtreidesTyrant 3y agolmao, this is straight untrue. how many family members have been lost because of YouTubes insane conspiracy stuff.
- numpad0 3y agoSocial media suggestions varies person to person. TikTok gave me nothing memorable last I tried. YouTube seems to be a better place when I’m logged out in a fresh browser. Twitter and Reddit gives me very little fake/incorrect posts. None of above seems to be the case for anyone else.
- deepzn 3y agoAgreed. TikTok in the wild without developing a curated feed of normal Human interests, can keep recommending sickening videos. I've seen the animal cruelty videos you saw too. Though, if you get out of the YT algorithm, for eg. in incognito mode, I've seen very poor recommendations as well. Like viral bait videos. But not like Tiktok.
- darth_avocado 3y agoNot sure about animal cruelty, but you click on one Tim Dillon comedy bit on YouTube and for some reason the feed just immediately devolves into an endless stream of conspiracy stuff. Clicking not interested does little to change it, and even watched videos keep showing up again and again.
- worrycue 3y agoWiping your Watch History should fix it. I always remove objectionable videos I accidentally watch from my Watch History to prevent the algorithm from using it as a basis for recommending me stuff.
- spondylosaurus 3y agoHearing stories about YouTube recommending conspiracy videos always fascinates me because my own recommendations rarely veer in that direction, if ever. But I keep to a pretty strict diet of gaming/speedrun videos and bass (guitar, not fish) content, so what I see on my homepage almost entirely adheres to that. But then I watch one innocuous video outside of my core interests—say, washing machine repair how-to, or a clip of an old sitcom, and then my feed gets infected with Jordan Peterson or other weird shit and I'm like ah, this is what everyone's talking about! And I have to go prune my watch history until they vanish. It's bizarre.
- shrimp_emoji 3y agoIt's because Tim Dillon's audience tend to be low-info, populist-adjacent, Roganite potheads from Austin, TX.
- deadbolt 3y agoI'm only somewhat familiar with Tim Dillon, and I agree with most of your statement, but why Austin, TX?
- heavyset_go 3y agoFacebook Reels has been showing me videos of animals being killed, and I've been keeping a list because it's absurd.
- hackernewds 3y agoWhy are you keeping this list?
- heavyset_go 3y agoBecause it sounds absurd and having evidence of it proves I'm not making it up. Been thinking of forwarding it to some journalists who have done reporting on similar things.
- WhereIsTheTruth 3y agoWell, that's not what researchers found: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/where-conspiracy-theories-flourish-a-study-of-youtube-comments-and-bill-gates-conspiracy-theories/ https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/where-conspira... This is not a problem specific to TikTok, fixing this issue is just a matter of improving the moderation systems, and at this point it's just noise, however the celebrities like Andrew Tate and Joe Rogan, they both come from YouTube/Instagram, so maybe the source of that kind of content originates from the same place? go figure Is it enough to ban YouTube of Facebook? of course not, why is it for TikTok? The strategy need to improve or change