• CommanderCloon
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    7 months ago

    Shorts fucking suck. It keeps recommending to me exactly four types of videos:

    • stuff I have already watched, liked and commented – sometimes a few minutes prior
    • videos I’m wildly uninterested with and systematically mark as irrelevant or instantly skip, yet it keeps bringing up videos of the same subject
    • very old old “news” shorts
    • stuff of people I’m subscribed to – which is fine, just not what makes great algorithms

    Meanwhile, in a very short time, tiktok has managed to make me discover communities I had no idea I’d like to watch content from, while subtly managing to stop showing me some of the content from those communities I don’t enjoy