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>However I do miss the charm of the 'old web' where we relied on word of mouth. I think MySpace really was a certain peak of Minimalistic non algo Social media;
by spike021 3y ago
>However I do miss the charm of the 'old web' where we relied on word of mouth. I think MySpace really was a certain peak of Minimalistic non algo Social media; you picked your sort for who to pay attention to, you could put your links or whatever, toss a song for a mood, and it was simple.
This is because back then you only had yourself to rely on to find the content you wanted.
Now everybody has to use their algorithms to predict what you want to see, which is terrible.
What I've noticed in the past couple years is that on any social platform that I admittedly choose to use, all it really takes is clicking something for one topic maybe once or twice and then half my feed is constantly full of it with no way to say "no that was a one-time thing".
- zdragnar 3y agoEven YouTube is bad at this. Think you clicked a game or programming tutorial article and it is actually a link to YouTube? Better not watch if you don't like having your recommendations cluttered with videos you'll never be interested in. At least with YouTube you can delete items from your watch history, but it's a few clicks to get to, so especially annoying for those one-off videos. I really, really wish there was a slightly higher threshold stopping those one-time mistakes from becoming a time sink.
- dragonwriter 3y agoTurn off your watch history, and only turn it on when you specifically want to.