• 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    1 year ago

    I keep hearing about it recommending right wing media, but I have not had this experience. It recommends me stuff that is almost exactly the same as things I watch regularly which is super weird and creepy to a degree in and of itself because of how exact it is. Like, not just the topics are similar, but the film style and even the voices and looks of those on camera are extremely similar to the point where I’ve wondered if they actually are people I know but posting to different channels at times.

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      1 year ago

      That’s weird I watch almost entirely tech/news/commentary that is very much on the socialist bend yet have to block far right wing channels monthly from the recommendations.

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        1 year ago

        I have the same experience. I police my algorithm aggressively to the point where I can immediately tell if they’ve made adjustments to it. I’ve blocked american sports channels repeatedly over the last couple years, for example. Youtube shorts contain the highest ratio of right-wing rage bait. Despite never, ever engaging with these videos and actively downvoting and blocking these creators outright, right-wing rage politics are regularly injected into my recommendations, a feed that is mostly focused on music, games, science and technology.