A personal observation...
On that Nebula site, I see creators like CGP Grey, Wendover Productions, Real Engineering, etc. I learned about their existence from Youtube's algorithmic suggestions. Probably 99% of any channel I watch regularly on Youtube came from algorithms instead of url referrals of HN or reddit.
Yes, algorithms have a dark side such as the ElsaGate situation. All I can say is that they were effective in suggesting the type of topics (education) I like.
The issue with that is that these platforms don't really scale, and will always be gated by some magical hand. Getting on there is probably more about having the right connections. As long as Nebula stays small, it'll probably be fine, but this greatly limits to breadth of the site.
One great example would be early Steam, and what Epic is sorta trying to re-create now. As the site got bigger and allowed more and more games, finding something you like became impossible. You had to dig through piles of crappy low tier games to find anything good. That's where algorithmic recommendation becomes a must.
But you can't take the smooth without the rough. The plus side of the recommendation algorithm is great, but is it worth the bad side?
(or just shows them a video they aren't interested in)
I knew about this stuff since pokemon go in the summer and I mean in 2016 What I used to do is search on YouTube something like "pokemon go challenge" and then look at videos posted 1 hours ago or today and then see videos of with children. Then if you looked at their channel you'll sometimes find gold because kids are bored and record themselves and put it online.
I don't think much has been done they just stopped the comments with timestamps of poses </gruesome>
What do you mean by this? When I subscribe to someone, they show up on my subscription feed page. Hasn't it always been like this?
I don’t want any push notifications, ever. I do want my subscriptions list to include exactly the things I subscribed to in reverse chronological order.
What does the bell do?
Most of the content that I watch and the content creators that I'm subscribed to comes from the recommendations. As far as I'm concerned, the algorithm works great.