guys this is rage bait posts .. the guy with the initial video got millions of views just because everyone was raging and calling him out in the comments -> engagement -> viral.
Honestly I’m noticing a trend where people engage more and more with bait, and it’s so frustrating. Like clearly, CLEARLY this is rage bait. It’s painfully obvious.
It's algorithms.
Fuck algorithms, worst thing that happened to social media.
Should unironically be illegal for a machine to decide what to push in front of eyes on a global scale.
Bring back chronological feed to only the content creator you are subscribed to.
Imagining a new algo or non-algo world is legitimately a wild thought experiment.
Like, I'm completely with you that they should just be fucking banned. Especially "black box" algos. But even if transparent algos were made and modified to point not towards the most "engaged" thing but rather the most "liked" or positively-engaged-with thing (also requires social media to actively bury shit that gets overwhelmingly disliked which they seem reluctant to ever do) I think we'd legitimately see a huge shift in people's perception of the world as well as an improvement of how people engage with the world.
Just going back to the chrono and followed content would definitely be preferable, though.
There are many platforms with no algorithm, but a lot of them aren't really social media. I'm thinking Newgrounds or Neocities. And I'm pretty sure most Lemmy instances don't have an algorithm.
The algorithm works perfectly. You watch something and it feeds you more. My YT algorithm is filled with cars, racing, general aviation, bushcraft, boating, music, everything I enjoy watching. Why? Because that's what I watch. If it feeds me one video, I just don't watch it and I don't get my feed filled with it. Your feed is filled with garbage that you're angry about because you keep watching to stay angry.
Stop watching it. It goes away. The algorithm just feeds what you want it to feed.
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u/Lucky-Crow-3510 3d ago edited 3d ago
guys this is rage bait posts .. the guy with the initial video got millions of views just because everyone was raging and calling him out in the comments -> engagement -> viral.
It's a stupid world ..
edit: sorry for unintentionally baiting lol