The initial page it showed me was a trainwreck of absolute garbage. I think they need to go and work on their sums a bit more.
Because people watch absolute garbage. There's no algorithmic solution to that.
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#22This is a great idea. I also wanted to create a platform like this one however allow people to sync their list of subscribed channels from YouTube. As you know, the subscriptions feed is now optimized on YouTube and not all new content from your subscribed channels find their way into your feed anymore. This platform that I was thinking would basically bring that back, however under a different domain with a better U…
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#23The initial page it showed me was a trainwreck of absolute garbage. I think they need to go and work on their sums a bit more.
Because people watch absolute garbage. There's no algorithmic solution to that.
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#24Not sure if it helps much. It still looks like the same clickbaity garbage that's in my regular trending tab.
Though it seems to be a different list of clickbaity garbage from https://m.youtube.com/feed/trending which is sort of interesting.
There’s nothing is even consider watching on the “Fair trending” one; I can see myself watching one or two things off the YouTube one if I was very bored.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Though it seems to be a different list of clickbaity garbage from https://m.youtube.com/feed/trending which is sort of interesting.
I’m reasonably sure the YouTube one shows old stuff if it’s currently popular. Which I’d assume is what you’d want. There’s nothing is even consider watching on the “Fair trending” one; I can see myself watching one or two things off the YouTube one if I was very bored.
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#26The default feed is pretty clickbaity but I filtered to only show the technology category and it's not terrible https://www.fairtrending.com/?lang=en&fc=cat&cat=28&tag=&msc...
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#27I think it's funny during Christmas and Easter, thousands of sermons and positive Christian videos are posted to YouTube but do not warrant a special response from Google, despite Christians being a large user base. Google is of course free to do as they wish with their platform and promote whatever they want, it's their choice and they own it. What I dislike is they advertise it as sort of free speech platform but r…
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#28I'm sold on algorithmic timelines now. That Youtube is awful. People are awful. Fortnite Battle Royale is awful. I don't want to see any of those.
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#29I was not expecting the truth to be SO much worse than the algorithmically provided view. I'm sold on algorithmic timelines now. That Youtube is awful. People are awful. Fortnite Battle Royale is awful. I don't want to see any of those.
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#30I was not expecting the truth to be SO much worse than the algorithmically provided view. I'm sold on algorithmic timelines now. That Youtube is awful. People are awful. Fortnite Battle Royale is awful. I don't want to see any of those.
It’s still better than the pure vomit on this fair site, but it could be soooooop much better if it didn’t try to maximize engagement as the primary goal.