• ShepherdPie
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    13 days ago

    Have you tried clicking the 3 dots on these outrage videos and selecting “don’t recommend channel” or a mix of that and “not interested?” I started to see a bunch of right wing political trash in my feed a while back since a lot of my watched videos could be considered adjacent (cars/trucks/offroading/home improvement/dash cam vids/etc) to what these people like and I haven’t really had this issue again.

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      13 days ago

      It’s wild that right wingers are always complaining about big tech censoring them when YouTube and Facebook are pushing far-right content so much

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        It’s wild that right wingers are always complaining about big tech censoring them when YouTube and Facebook are pushing far-right content so much

        I’ve got a conspiracy theory about this:

        1. Everyone likes kittens.
        2. Some of us who like kittens think about how to act decently to each-other, some of the time.

        Leading to:

        1. Right wingers who like kittens will sometimes see something “woke” in their algorithm feed, and they feel attacked.
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      I have done this. I have told them not to post me shit from channels, and topics, over, and over. Best it seems it can go is like 2 months. When I tried deleting my history, and turning it off, it got SO MUCH WORSE. Even making a new account was orders of magnitude worse. As sad as it is, I am actually getting a better result… I have long been at the point where I do not click on things I am not familiar with, or without suggestion from a trusted source. So I just don’t look at recommended anymore. Just look for the indicator of new stuff from my subs, or look at things I specifically search for.