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I'd really love to see what the twitter (or YouTube) feed is for a normal user. I don't doubt that the algorithms push extreme content, because that's what humans are naturally drawn to. After all, we want to look at car crashes aswell. However, I'm just really curious on why these people simply don't train the algorithm better.
Every now and then I get some right-wing(ish) video recommendation on YouTube and after I mark it as "not interested" it dissapears and it just goes back to recommending me stuff I'm actually interested in. Same with 1 minute long videos. I don't need to flag too many of them before it realizes it's not the content I don't like but the short lenght. In my personal experience twitter is way less agressive at pushing such content but even when it does the same solution works there too. "Not interested" and it stops showing up. Except for cat videos. Those never stop showing up no matter how often I mark it.
Huh? Have you been recently? There is no algorithm. You get gambling ads and bot bullshit no matter what subject you post about. It’s completely flatlined. The brain drain is palpable.
YouTube will at least find somewhat related videos based on what you view. Instagram/Meta will go so far as to slamming ads in your face trying to guess your mental illnesses with ad displays and getting spookily close simply by the memes and posts you gawk at by how long you hover over them. They completely embarrass Twitter in that area now.
And Twitter definitely wasn’t always this way. Creating a burner used to be a pain in the ass because it would usually somehow figure out who you were rapidly even on a fresh or sandboxed OS, and start slyly suggesting your old followers and similar. It was downright spooky at times. All of that is gone.
I've never had ads on twitter and the content it recommends me is the kind of content the people I'm following post aswell. Personally I notice no difference in my twitter experience now to what it was 4 years ago.
The ads are absolutely rampant on the burner I made. I don’t remember it ever being this bad. But my previous accounts were quite old and I rarely saw any at all back then.
You can use uBlock origin to block them
Right. I do but for this case I was using the app. Try that you’ll see what I mean about the insanity.
I believe you. Just pointing out that ads are optional, so that's not a reason for me to leave.