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What is your boomer opinion
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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2023
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Algorithms that try to suggest me content are universally bad, and all searches should provide results based solely on the terms, syntax, and language entered. Same with anything that tries to provide me content based on data harvested about my location or demographic.
I used to be mad at algorythms suggesting things that is disliked. But then I realised that it would be rather scary if they were right.
I think it has its place but it should absolutely be optional. Yeah they suck but the YouTube algorithm is responsible for like 70% of my knowledge base.
I miss accidentally finding the most random stuff on YouTube way back before they started pushing monetized content, but it's been a very long time
I like that Lemmy and Masto don’t have those fucking algorithms. It’s a relief.
What is your opinion on Bluesky? Their default feed is chronological, but they do have algorithms. They're actually moving towards custom algorithms, so you can build your own or use someone else's, delete, pin, reorder them. It's like different feeds. I like that implementation personally.
Never have I ever benefited from Google or Amazon or anyone changing my search string for me. Even if I do misspell something, I'm gonna click on the "did you mean x instead?" link myself, because I don't trust the 50/50 mixed results anyway. But 90% of the time I'm gonna be immediately scrambling to put the double quotes back in, which it's also gonna ignore half the time.
Hard agree. Sometimes I'm searching for something very specific and esoteric, and the results spam me with unrelated nonsense because the search engine thinks it knows better than I do