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• woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  it’s all crap and mindless shit anyways.

  If you click on mindless shit, the algorithm serves you mindless shit. I get documentaries. 🤷

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you know who else has documentaries?

    PBS.

    support your local public broadcasting stations, people.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      you know who else has documentaries?

      PBS.

      support your local public broadcasting stations, people.

      And do you know which documentaries they don’t have? The ones that are uploaded by their creators only to YouTube.

      I watch plenty of Arte and I pay the fee but documentaries about video game speedruns etc. simply aren’t on Arte (or PBS or Nebula). I watch those where they are: YouTube.

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    • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or turn on adblockers and support the people you watch directly (donate, patreon, merch, etc). It takes like $2/yr to replace the ad revenue that you would’ve generated for them (something like that).

      Or use the alt platforms that creators create themselves when possible.

      You can’t escape youtube right now (as in there is no real alternative if you stop using it all together), but you can turn on adblockers (ublock), use 3rd party clients and give something directly to creators you watch a lot.

      And you can support PBS in addition if you want.

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I just avoid algorithms. If I want documentaries there are places for those.

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    • woelkchen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, you made a wrong claim that I merely corrected. Watch whatever wherever you want. Doesn’t change the fact that the documentary creators I follow for the vast majority only upload to YouTube and those that also upload to Nebula offer a worse experience there.

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      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lets put it another way: it really is not the youtube that was interesting 20 years ago, and you gotta think that yes, most of it is mindless shit. Or “content” which is just as bad.

        Sure I could dig around and waste time trying to find gold in the sea of crap but why bother.

        And yes, the algorithms do work against you, that is well documented, no matter what you click on.

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    • Amdouni@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What I like about the algorithm is that it suggest you related content (usually).

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      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes somewhat related, but the algorithm is not trying to help you find related or interesting things. It is trying to find ways to keep you engaged. That is a very different thing.

        It will slowly try to direct you to outrage, polarization, addiction loops, sensationalism and clickbaity videos. It amplifys misinformation because either people fall into believing it OR are so outraged by it they want to comment or rage at it.

        Youtube has an incentive to do these things: more watch time = more ads served = more revenue.

        So people will tell you: just curate what you watch! That fixes it!

        If you are going to curate what you watch, you don’t need an algorithm!

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