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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

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[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Have you tried clicking the 3 dots on these outrage videos and selecting "don't recommend channel" or a mix of that and "not interested?" I started to see a bunch of right wing political trash in my feed a while back since a lot of my watched videos could be considered adjacent (cars/trucks/offroading/home improvement/dash cam vids/etc) to what these people like and I haven't really had this issue again.

[–] rothaine@lemm.ee 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's wild that right wingers are always complaining about big tech censoring them when YouTube and Facebook are pushing far-right content so much

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 10 points 3 weeks ago

They still think that YouTube and Facebook are representative of the average person. They don't understand how incredible curated those feeds are. I think that's where some of the "silent majority" mythos comes from. Everything they see is people agreeing with them, therefore it's impossible that Joe Biden got more votes in 2020.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's wild that right wingers are always complaining about big tech censoring them when YouTube and Facebook are pushing far-right content so much

I've got a conspiracy theory about this:

Everyone likes kittens.
Some of us who like kittens think about how to act decently to each-other, some of the time.

Leading to:

Right wingers who like kittens will sometimes see something "woke" in their algorithm feed, and they feel attacked.

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I have done this. I have told them not to post me shit from channels, and topics, over, and over. Best it seems it can go is like 2 months. When I tried deleting my history, and turning it off, it got SO MUCH WORSE. Even making a new account was orders of magnitude worse. As sad as it is, I am actually getting a better result... I have long been at the point where I do not click on things I am not familiar with, or without suggestion from a trusted source. So I just don't look at recommended anymore. Just look for the indicator of new stuff from my subs, or look at things I specifically search for.