@Typo-MAGAshiv

Having a diverse feed and being conscious with what you are consuming is definetly a great step towards the right direction and much better than what most normies are doing. Nonetheless, always keep your guard up because at the end of the day that only proves the system has decided you like variety. Even if you turn off autoplay and manually click videos the system still decides on what to show you and what not based on what it thinks will keep you engaged.

So yee, users have some control, but the idea that the algorithm isn’t slowly manipulating people’s worldview because “you can just click things manually” is way too optimistic about how influence and recommendation systems actually work. These systems also make use of your current emotional state based on your input. In moments of weakness, when you are feeling a little too relaxed they will show you things you might not usually agree with in order to manipulate your opinion.

Or are you using specific browser extensions to really block the recommendations and only focus on your subs? I'm wondering if that might help towards a better feed.

Source: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/introduction-to-real-world-mental-health-data/202504/why-your-phone-might-know-youre-depressed www.nature.com/articles/npp20167#:~:text=We%20have%20recently%20defined%20digital,risk

@Deepthroat that convoluted meme is partly right, partly wrong

If you just passively allow YouTube to decide what you watch, then sure.

But you as a user have a lot more control over what you watch or listen to than with regular TV. You can turn the autoplay feature off, and manually select what to watch next, whether it's suggested based on being related to previously viewed content or something completely different you search up in the moment.

My main YouTube account suggests a wide variety of content, because I seek out a wide variety. Manosphere stuff, political stuff, stuff about navigating the VA, ASMR, comedy, music (real and AI and parody), commentary on pop culture such as Critical Drinker and ItsAGundam, and various other shit.

Additionally, for all that YouTube does censor and shadowban things it doesn't like, it's still nowhere near as bad as regular TV.

I still plan to switch to rumble at some point because of how bad it has gotten, but it's still a damn sight better than regular TV.

@MentORPHEUS

Matt Walsh came off as a partisan hack and corporate apologist and cock gobbler.

Sure, if you're biased.

They buy a company, sell the land under it, lease it back to the company skimming that revenue stream [emphasis added]

Unless they buy that land themselves, then how would they "skim that revenue stream" of having the restaurants lease back what they sold?

The whole point of that is to inject some liquid cash into the company that's failing. Companies have done that themselves without being directed to by outside private equity firms.

Walsh then suggests that immigrants and drug users at the very bottom of the money and power fuckpile are the ACTUAL problem

He says they're part of the problem, and they are. As he correctly points out, the decline in quality isn't all because of any one thing. There are several factors contributing to the suckage, from bad employees to private equity firms being too top-heavy without any actual knowledge about food or other businesses to Sysco controlling too much of the food supply and making it all the same.

@Typo-MAGAshiv Matt Walsh came off as a partisan hack and corporate apologist and cock gobbler.

He completely missed the methods and motives of Private Equity buyouts. "OH, the new owners don't want to run the businesses they buy into the ground..."
Private equity doesn't play a buy and hold strategy, it's buy, strip mine, pocket the massive short term gains, then walk away from the walking dead zombie shell that remains.

They buy a company, sell the land under it, lease it back to the company skimming that revenue stream, take on massive debt, use that to buy back stock shares, sell their own shares and the company at peak artificially inflated value, then walk away with more money than God.

Thanks to legislative and systemic capture and control, "marker forces " don't punish such predatory behavior, instead provide perverse incentives to perpetuate it.

Walsh then suggests that immigrants and drug users at the very bottom of the money and power fuckpile are the ACTUAL problem, not the machinations of Late Stage Capitalism. His analysis sells well to what remains of the Fox News watching Boomer generation. I see through his bullshit, and so do my brothers' Kids generation.