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Comment by drewcoo | Hacker News Reader

I wish YouTube would show me something radicalizing. I mostly get cooking and woodworking recommendations.

Maybe I'm not interacting with it correctly. Do you watch all or most of a video then downvote to get more content like that?

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Just go on X. I created new account that only follows Video Gaming accounts and the amount of disturbing crap X has shown me this past month has got me straight up scared to scroll.

I have no clue why people think Elon firing everyone at twitter was a success.

It is actually worth ingesting some toxic content just to really see what people are being influenced by. It hurts because they do branch off of tiny truths here and there... before veering off into whacko-town

I think I’ll try to close any offending vids as quickly as I can going forward and not downvoting. I suspect the YT algorithm sees me watching the first few seconds in shock as “engagement.”

Clean your watch history or create a new account. Youtube algorithm is very good, just watch / like videos you want more in recommendations, use private tabs for everything else.

Twitter algorithm is much worse for example and has bugs, you'll need to grind for some time to get rid of popular trash and politics. Any engagement with bad content will only bring you more of it in the feed, and there's tons of baits to engage with something stupid. So mute any accounts and words you don't like, click "not interested" on posts, but it's really slow to update.

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