In the past few days, it’s recommended:
- Some guy saying vegan diets don’t work (news to me, considering I’ve been on one for years)
- A different guy complaining about PETA’s new game
- A woman saying women in modern games are too ugly
- The same woman saying women don’t really want to be in charge of anything
- Some bullshit from ShoeOnHead
- Paul Joseph Watson
Not sure where this all came from. I’d actually enjoyed a very long, pleasant streak where it wasn’t recommending me any of this trash. Now they’re coming out of the woodwork. Every time I see one of these videos I click the “don’t recommend this” button, but there are always more.
Yeah that’s my issue, the recommended feed rarely throws right wing garbage at me, but if I search for l, say, something trans related? Out comes the PraegerU/Ben Shapiro/Epoch Times.
And yet for some reason it’s been giving me (a cis man) lots of (thankfully good) trans content, while my trans roommate keeps getting the right wing nonsense you do. idfgi why the algo can’t give her the good (or even just the okay) shit, since it’s clearly capable of serving it up to me.
Maybe I just need to do a day’s watching on her account to see if it helps fix her recommends.
Tangential, but back on
the recommendation algorithm would always be “hey, you enjoy posting on the Enough Libertarian Spam subreddit, we think you’d like these libertarian and anarcho-capitalist subreddits!” The algorithms are good at telling that someone is interested in a subject but not so good at distinguishing positive vs negative interest and content about the subject.
Plus, there’s the $$$ involved. Shapiro comes up near the top for trans-related searches because he pays to have it rank higher.