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Ask HN: Do you notice that YouTube become better than other social media apps?

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• stackghost 2y ago
  I do not notice this, personally. I'm curious what you're seeing that prompted you to ask this?
  • jerawaj740 2y ago
    tech content
    • stackghost 2y ago
      There is lots of tech content on other sites though
      • jerawaj740 2y ago
        I think some developers are focusing more on creating content on YouTube, possibly for money, but many of them produce great content, what I like about YouTube is that there’s no noise just a stream of information, YouTube encourages you to build, whereas other platforms like Twitter and LinkedIn often push you towards talking and shitposting
• uberman 2y ago
  No, it seems worse to me. I happen to like a particular women's sport. I coach and my kids play at the national level. I watch a lot of videos of plays, coaching, games, player highlights for this sport. YouTube takes this to mean I am a voyeur who wants to watch women's diving, high jump and beach volleyball. Basically anything with women and bikinis. I constantly have to flag thumbnails as "not interested" and "do not recommend this channel". If I don't I get offered continually more extreme content such as duct tape bikini and see through garment modelling and "try-ons". I understand that perhaps some people who watch one sport also go on to watch YouTube soft porn but I can't imagine it is a frequent as the way their algorithms push it. I have the same viewing patterns on Facebook and they don't flood my feed with softcore porn. All in all I would say YouTube is worse than others.
  • Yawrehto 2y ago
    I believe it was on YouTube that it was shown watching some videos on traditionally masculine activites (cars, football…) would quite quickly lead you into a misogynistic rabbit hole.
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