YouTube, the jewel of the internet

Post by silvestrov » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 10:28 PM UTC

mastax wrote: post #117

robinsonb5 wrote: post #98

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I do have some admiration for the algorithm - but I also wish that refreshing the home page would show me some more of the many thousands of videos that I'd likely find interesting, rather than the same 20 just in a different order.

I'm glad that the home page is semi-stable because I'll often click on a video and then go back and want to queue up another that looked interesting but if it were gone it might be hard to find again. (Yes there are strategies to work around this but I don't always use them). They do have the "New to You" category on the home page now which you might find useful.

Post by seanalltogether » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 10:30 PM UTC

mastax wrote: post #81

I'm going to go against the grain here and say my YouTube algorithm is great. Signing out of YouTube and viewing the default home page is a reminder of the horrors that lie beyond, but my little corner of it is a bit too good. There was a period of time semi-recently when the algorithm was better than my heuristics, too. I had associated too-good thumbnails with overproduced shallow clickbait videos churned out by co…

Post by deepzn » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 10:31 PM UTC

mastax wrote: post #81

I'm going to go against the grain here and say my YouTube algorithm is great. Signing out of YouTube and viewing the default home page is a reminder of the horrors that lie beyond, but my little corner of it is a bit too good. There was a period of time semi-recently when the algorithm was better than my heuristics, too. I had associated too-good thumbnails with overproduced shallow clickbait videos churned out by co…

Post by natebc » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 10:32 PM UTC

mastax wrote: post #129

ur-whale wrote: post #100

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>I'm going to go against the grain here and say my YouTube algorithm is great. I agree with the minor caveat that I'd like a "broaden" button and a "change theme" menu. My search algorithm presents me with content that I find quite enjoyable, but I'd like to be exposed to a little more stuff that's outside of my bubble. It knows what I like based on what I've watched, but it doesn't know me and therefore can't infer…

On the top of the home page they have a category control that lets you look for different genres of stuff from your algorithm plus a "new to you" category. I think that's supposed to be what you're after. I hardly ever use it because I forget it's there or don't need it to steer the algorithm my way.

Post by yadingus » Sun, Apr 23, 2023, 10:32 PM UTC

wildrhythms wrote: post #35

yodsanklai wrote: post #18

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> They can literally leave school and already be professionally competent. I really wonder about that. Learning anything requires active participation and motivation. YouTube provides great content, but I'd say it's the easy part. BTW, public libraries existed before youtube. My personal example, I graduated in maths 20 years ago and spent countless hours solving problems. Nowadays, I'm a youtube addict, I casually w…

School is less about learning a subject to any serious degree, and more about socialization and exposure to a breadth of subjects. I am suspect of people who view school purely as an educational experience.