Tell you a problem I’ve had with it recently: search.
Used to be, you’d search Youtube for something like 'how to make a zero clearance throat plate for table saw" and you’d get pages of useful results, then some not so great results, then things that make you say “no not that kind of throat.” and by then it’s just giving you results with at least one of the search terms in it.
Now, you’ll get maybe ten relevant results, then about ten results that have absolutely nothing to do with your search, just…stuff it would clutter your home page with. Like you’re not trying to find information. You can feel that “increase watch time at all costs” shit.
When you search for something that doesn’t give tons of results with decent or above views, they keep injecting sections of 3 “other videos you might like”. Which makes it really annoying to find something less popular.
One trick I usually use to get at least another ten or so relevant results is to explicitly click the “videos” Tag below the search. This way (at least on mobile) I actually have a chance of finding the video I was hoping to find…
I still find it funny it thinks my 3 year old is interested in solar panels.
The more concerning one was a divorce lawyer for fathers. That shit wasn’t even on my account or my computer, it just assumed daytime watching of kids stuff means a guys going through a divorce, lol.
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The algorithm is a combination of things they think you want to watch and things they want you to watch. The latter are things that tend to keep people watching, increasing ad revenue for youtube.
*The former
Nope, the latter was correct.
Lat her? I hardly know her.
How old are you, Adam?
Get that boomer joke outta here!
Your mom said I was old enough last night. Boom roasted.
Okay you know what? Fair.
Use Grayjay. No ads, no algorithm, all video platforms in one feed.
Grayjay is not open-source, sadly; FreeTube and NewPipe are, though they are YT-based.
The source is available, right? You just can’t fork it to include ads? Or you can’t fork it at all?
You can fork it but you can’t redistribute it or change the name. You also can’t do anything that would be considered making a profit.
Essentially you can’t do anything but contribute free labor. If Greyjay put ads and malware into the app you would be powerless to start something based on it.
I tried FreeTube and NewPipe, but got tired of YouTube constantly changing things to make them not work. I’m too old to deal with constant tinkering, and have no interest in investing into a Pie Hole.
I think you gave up too soon because both of these has been working flawlessly for months… I’d strongly recommend retrying either!
Thanks for the info. I’ll try again. 👍
No ATV version…
Why the fuck would you think this is a showerthought?
Because Lemmy only has political moderation.
It sounds like you think Lemmy is unusual in that sense. In reality, absolutely any moderation is political. Politics deals with the distribution of political goods, goods such as attention, relevance, access to distribution channels, discourses, approval… I know I probably sound reductive, but I’m simply being systematic and consistent in using words’ meanings.
A like button distributes a political good. A chronological algorithm for a social media site distributes a political good. Saying the OP belongs to this community distributes a political good. So does saying that it doesn’t.
The fact that this is still here and obviously not a shower thought just proves my point. They moderate politics, but other subs are asleep at the wheel.
Cry more, bitch.
Answer the damn question coward.
I’ve been thinking – somebody should make a 3rd party YT front page with its own algorithm. Google would probably be livid but we do already have alternarive front ends.
Top #1 sign(s) that you’re spending too much time on YouTube.
Or too little. As someone else suggested the algorithm would understand me better if I watched more.
Watching YouTube in the shower for one
Guilty. I like to call YouTube my morphine drip. It’s quite literally an addiction for me on the same level as drugs have been for me, but more addictive.
Some drugs are cheaper too
Convention be damned, you’ll never take my shower phone
Doesn’t everyone do that?
YouTube has the worst commenting system as well. Oh a highlighted reply in a 500 comment thread I never commented on? Great just what I didn’t need YouTube!
I’m so glad I never have to deal with youtube’s idiotic algorithm
If you have an account and are subscribed to YouTubers you want to see regularly, just visit https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
You choose what YouTube serves you, much like visiting your subscribed communities overview on Lemmy!
Bonus tip: If you’re on Linux, install
webapp-manager, add a webapp for the address mentioned with a browser of your choosing, its own addons if you’d like such as Return YouTube Dislike and Enhancer for YouTube!Switch to peertube mate
What algorythm? I turned off watch history so all I see is turn on history notifications.
my subscriptions work so I have more than I have time to watch available.
You need to clean your watch history. Remove any video you dont want affecting the recommendations and if you accidentally watch some video like that then you need to remove it from history. If you dont have history on then I have no clue how it recommends stuff though. I dont think it bases it on every single thing on the history or maybe it weights recent videos more heavily.
I recently had it recommend way too much certain kinds of videos after i watched a bunch of them and it reverted to what it recommended earlier when i removed most of the ones i watched earlier.
I don’t have history on, I keep my “subscriptions” list curated to perfection so every morning I find interesting videos to watch/listen while I make coffee
that is also good way to do it, i used to do that too until i noticed the recommendations were actually worth my time. I dont think there is too much malicious meddling with them either since I have had videos recommended i dont think any corporate executive would even want me to see but still i try to be wary.
Dang that’s a lot of youtube you’re watching there
It seems to know my tastes so well, most recommendations are either things I already watch, or things so similar that even the people in them look and sound almost identical to the things I watch. Like I have found at least 2 other chemistry channels that I thought were NileRed until I actually looked at the channel names. And no, one of them is not NileBlue, his other channel.
Please tell me one of the suggestions was Explosions and Fire.
And don’t forget his second channel, https://youtube.com/@ExtractionsAndIre
