I understand using algorithms for some things. I do get it. But there was definitely a rude awakening for me when I realized people I *knew* actually used the twitter algorithmic timeline. A big "wait, really???" moment for my old ass. - ThreadSky

kayin.moe • 4 days ago

I understand using algorithms for some things. I do get it. But there was definitely a rude awakening for me when I realized people I *knew* actually used the twitter algorithmic timeline. A big "wait, really???" moment for my old ass.

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kayin.moe•4 days ago

Personally I don't mind it for unimportant content... Pixiv gives good recs! YT recs can.... be okay.... if you manage your history and garden it. Anything where I'm INTERACTING with people though seems crazy to me, personally, though I get some people use x/Bsky algos like it's pixiv so 🤷‍♀️

rubydelamuerte.bsky.social•4 days ago

I also had a big shock when I found out multiple friends of mine used the twitter algo page. When I expressed that shock, they all said they just use it for looking at anime tiddies, and as long as that's all they use it for, that's all it'll give them. Hard to fault that logic lol

lily-suwen.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah I certainly use my nsfw twitter as primarily a pixiv but for cosplay models lol.

kayin.moe•4 days ago

yeah. Tried to do that here and bsky just showed me nothing but politics. 😬

lily-suwen.bsky.social•4 days ago

bluesky discovery feed loves libs and hates fun

kayin.moe•4 days ago

idk how much younger folks (though heck, many older folks definitely aren't) are even asking themselves that. Surely some have to be, I know doom scrolling often makes people realize they need to think about the content spigot more than putting their face under it. It's hard though!!

ryong.bsky.social•4 days ago

Considering the amount of "christian, mother of 5" women in their 60s misinterpreting video game tweets we've got on here I think there's a different subset of older people who are really into it too.

kayin.moe•4 days ago

all these platforms are actively fighting you. I hate when I scroll on instagram and don't notice the transition to the PAIN ZONE where it just SHOWS ME STUFF. Tumblr seems to be doing this now whenever it decides you haven't seen enough new content. Nothing wants to be used reasonably!!!! 😤

wamborium.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm glad a conversation about this is being had. I've been on a soapbox about this exact subject for years and I'm running out of breath.

sulphuros.vtube.social•4 days ago

My homepage is Youtube subscription page.
Not the home page.
The subscription page.
I don't want to be force-fed what GOOGLE thinks I want to (Or if I may put on my tinfoil hat for a second, what THEY want me to) watch. I also use about a billion browser addons that obfuscate what I look at online.

sulphuros.vtube.social•4 days ago

UBlock Origin (Adblock Plus has, in essence, been bought out), Privacy Badger, DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials, hell, even MalwareBytes Browser Guard. I disable as little as possible when a site breaks or gets pissy, or even get a Tampermonkey script to bypass said pissyness.

sulphuros.vtube.social•4 days ago

I only use Google or Bing as a last resort, almost exclusively using DuckDuckGo (WHICH LETS YOU DISABLE THEIR AI ASSIST FULLY, MIGHT I ADD), as they don't use some Neural Net bullshittery to fail to answer your question spectacularly at the top of your search results.

konjak.org•4 days ago

I watched too many videos of like two channels on YT recently while doing other things and Youtube thinks that is all I ever want to watch now

konjak.org•4 days ago

Like, it won't kick to the top of the main page new videos of all the channels I follow even

kayin.moe•4 days ago

lol god I've purged whole channels from my history to shut it up. It's so annoying. I like the discovery aspect, but it's so desperate for me to click stuff.

elementnumber46.bsky.social•4 days ago

I cleared out my youtube history and disabled adding to it years ago and I'm never turning it back on

elementnumber46.bsky.social•4 days ago

for anyone wondering: go to Settings > Manage History > Controls
You can either turn the whole thing off or deselect specific things like watch or search history

sixtyfps.bsky.social•4 days ago

I never use algorithmic feeds. If it doesn't function like RSS, it isn't important enough to scroll through.

thundalarchsys.bsky.social•4 days ago

My partners are all over the spectrum in terms of online space curation, and some of it was mutually fascinating. It turned into a huge conversation about the how and why. Got a lot of people to change stuff (boyfriend blocking tons of trolls and sources, girlfriend cleaning history).

yonkuma.bsky.social•4 days ago

Every so often, Twitter would switch me over to the algorithmic timeline without me noticing it. I would just be scrolling and feeling myself getting more and more upset, and finally be like "what the fuck is going on"? Then I would suddenly realize what had happened

yonkuma.bsky.social•4 days ago

You can literally feel the difference. It messes with your brain

kayin.moe•4 days ago

oh my god I had that same experience like oh this is making me feel unwell

yonkuma.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think that's what it feels like to be hacked

grimalex.bsky.social•4 days ago

If you're okay with the perspective of a rando:

I found the "For You" timeline useful after being very aggressive with blocking. Block all ads, block right-wingers, block meme accounts, block leftists who do nothing but spend all day arguing with right-wingers, etc /1

grimalex.bsky.social•4 days ago

After that it was serving me up cool trans people, indie video game and TTRPG designers, interesting artists, leftists who had interesting things to say (even if complaining). All of which I was unlikely to find on my own.

But, yeah, I had to fight what Twitter wanted the algo to be. /2

grimalex.bsky.social•4 days ago

I was basically brute-forcing a user-hostile algorithm into something that served my needs (insert joke about your least favorite MS OS version).

In a user-first world, all of the algorithm parameters would have been transparent and tweakable, instead of something I had to "trick". /3 fin

kayin.moe•4 days ago

YEAH I got youtube kicked into good shape but oh my GOD is it a process. The amount of shit I end up not clicking cause I don't want to mess up the algorithm (I mean I can just remove stuff later, but a lot of stuff gives me pause still).

But GOD it almost seems to get mad at me.

kayin.moe•4 days ago

Like if I go to yt homepage, don't see anything I like, and leave, that's a good interaction for me. But I feel like once a month it goes crazy cause it hates that and tires to expand suddenly in every direction. Which fortunately, since I run a tight ship, is like "DO YOU WANT BARTENDING VIDEOS??"

wirewitchviolet.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's weird enough that people ever even look at that "Discover" tab, but the fact that people will also just hit the reply button on the random stuff it tosses out is like... are we even the same species?

Had a rando crash a private convo with a bigot tracker maintainer accidentally adding a friend

wirewitchviolet.bsky.social•4 days ago

Felt like I was putting food in the dishes for my cats and then some random raccoon that forced the window open and is sitting behind me on the counter starts screaming for some or something. HOW DID YOU EVEN GET IN HERE?

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