@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.

@adam-l @Stigma @Deepthroat and @MSNBCorpheus, er, @mentorpheus (since I see that you starred all 3 of their replies), I'll get you all in one fell swoop here.

Bottom line, up front: you are all wrong, and just repeating the lies taught to you by your leftist education systems. Nazis are leftist. The differences between Nazis and Soviets were minute.

Hitler himself denied anything to do with Marxists

A) And he was just well-known for never practicing any kind of deceit, huh? What happened to "ignore what they say, watch what they do"?

B) and "Caitlin" Jenner denies being a man.

They're are socially right, economically left

Can't really be "socially right" when instituting leftist socialist programs.

but overall they buck the left/right dichotomy and present a nationalist vs globalist argument.

While their nationalism was important to them, so too was their socialism, including seizing the means of production. Again, leftist, almost even communist.

From the man himself:

"Socialism," [Hitler] retorted, putting down his cup of tea, pugnaciously, "is the science of dealing with the common weal. Communism is not Socialism. Marxism is not Socialism. The Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning. I shall take Socialism away from the Socialists.

1) See A in what I replied to Adam.

2) if Hitler isn't being deceitful, then this quote kind of makes my point for me.

Razorfist explains this better and more thoroughly detailed than I have time for, including a lot of original sources:

youtu.be/9-SLqdhkvJo?si=zxUtcZpAcsHnFIBv