If you think you’re not seeing propaganda, you are not seeing the propaganda.

Okay but YouTube suggested videos are genuinely way worse than they used to be. I can’t even fall down rabbit holes anymore. Trying to “curate” the algorithm is like swimming against the current. I can try and try to get YouTube to recommend me live music, but even when I manage to find something, the next video is going to be either a video I already watched yesterday or Rick Beato’s daily rant about the top 40. Every time.

I used to be able to spend hours just browsing, drifting from topic to topic. Now it’s like they’re trying to trap me in a loop of their most profitable videos

I do miss tiktok sometimes, but i had to delete it because I think i broke my algo somehow, it started showing me things i had absolutely no intrest in to the point of it being unusable… I’d love if i could get RSS feeds of tiktok pages so i could still follow my friends tho

I loved that guy, politician I think, who said “This app is disgusting. It’s just full of nearly naked young girls!” and everyone was like my dude, it’s an algorithm, that’s on you.

i like platforms where i can curate what i see

holy shit that’s boomer zoomer as fuck

Is that an interrobang‽

Probably at the point they went to the app store, searched TikTok, and clicked “install”.

If you give Abbie Richards a watch/read, she’ll educate you on how easy it is for TikTok to become a right-wing misinformation playground.

Did what go wrong?

Never used TikTok (which is what I assume “TT” means). Don’t have a YouTube account, use it very little anyway.

So what’s the question again?

YT basically just sends me comedy sketches and bad sci-fi shorts. Lemmy basically sends me memes about popular culture and science… And that’s it, those are the feeds that exist, right?