• aceshigh@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    Why did YT make you angry? I haven’t experienced it yet. I block content I’m not interested in and it goes away.

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      11 days ago

      taking a guess but I already saw some other comments on another thread mention this: The chart boys in any corps will see Engagement == Profit. Thus they will tune their recommendations solely for that. And if you aren’t bothered about properly policing your video upload platform the end result is highly divisive content thats “not boring”.

      Divisive content makes people angry so they engage in comments.

      i used to be on reddit. And I used to get into “debates” that devolved into a slap fight and make me angry about the people who intentionally or unintentionally riled me up with outrageous (real or my own perception) opinions.

      While lemmy also has slap fights, I feel like the lack of an “algorithm” tuned for engagement prevents continuous fueling of the fire, metaphorically speaking.

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          10 days ago

          it may not seem like it but… being offline is the best thing you can do to your mental health. No need to overwhelm your brain with stuff happening elsewhere when you already have to deal with stuff closer to home. Being aware is generally better than being ignorant but it shouldn’t disable your daily life.

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      11 days ago

      YT, really Google, is just not a company I want to support. YT as a platform is not something I want to support by using. Also, data reasons.

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      9 days ago

      How to fully block pro-right, minecraft and roblox content? It doesn’t matter how many videos I mark as “not interested” or channels I block, there’s always another one that YT shows on the sidebar of related videos

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        9 days ago

        Tbh I have never seen Minecraft and Roblox content at all. I do occasionally see alt right content but I block it immediately and don’t see them again.

        I’ll give you a different perspective, perhaps you keep getting those kind of videos because you share some of the same beliefs as them. So maybe yt/life is trying to get you to start questioning your beliefs and interests…

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          9 days ago

          maybe yt/life is trying to get you to start questioning your beliefs and interests…

          Haha, no. The more likely problem is that ptBR content is sorely lacking in things I find interesting, so the Algo defaults to recommending “the next most related”. Retro gaming stuff? Look here, this other Brazilian creator is all about Roblox! Oh wait, Minecraft counts as retro! Watching news? Here’s some TOTALLY UNBIASED AND POLITICALLY NEUTRAL opinions news!