• GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    I recently switched over to using LibreTube which cut me off from personalized algorithmic recommendations.

    It was a little bit like switching off Reddit to Lemmy - less digital sugar pills, but after a while, I don’t even really miss it.

    I do have to actively seek out new creators if I want to watch something new, but in all honesty my current subscriber list keeps me more than busy.

    On balance a net positive, would recommend

      • GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml
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        8 months ago

        It’s not a perfect experience to be sure, since it doesn’t have the backing of a trillion dollar company with tens of thousands of engineers. It mostly gets the job done with a bit of know-how for me, though.

  • enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    Most of the time I open youtube in Google container tab, see any interesting video to watch, but I often don’t want to have related videos recommended to me. So I watch them in temporary containers.

    Because the recommendation is like this, just because I like 3kliksphilip talk about niche ladder mechanic in counter-strike, doesn’t mean I’m interested to some random e-sport CS player talk about CS tournaments.

    Or one time I watch 2kliksphilip’s video on DiRT Rally, I get videos from racing youtubers talk about their driving wheels, and even real-life Rally videos. (Philip doesn’t even use driving wheels, he used keyboard, but this is unrelated :3)

    • palordrolap@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      Unsure what platform you’re using, but on desktop there are options to tell it you’re not interested in a video or even a whole channel.

      And once I’ve done that a few times, I get recommendations that are clearly the algorithm struggling to figure me out. What also makes me suspect it has no idea is the appearance of the “watch it again” section. “Ah-ha! We know you watched these videos, so you’re bound to want to watch them again!” and then I say I’m not interested in those either.

      When the AI revolution comes, that one particularly confused robot is gonna come find me, I can tell.

  • xpinchx@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I’m not sure what happened, but my algorithm is on fire lately (in a good way). I frequently get recommended quality videos with very little engagement and not many views. Smaller gaming channels, car enthusiast videos, short <20 second videos that are hilarious and remind me of early YouTube.

    It looks like other people are getting these as well because they will be 5-6 year videos with 10k views and all the comments are from this last month.

    The whole experience is very much “early YouTube” and I’m here for it. My front page used to be all from the same dozen channels but I have so much more variety now.