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Turn off Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube?
really just all social media
Lemmy is social media.
You heard the Lemming. Off.
exactly.
Yup. We got pro-Russian mods here on Lemmy as well.
Don't we... Davel?
What does YouTube have to do with this? I'm on YT quite a bit watching a wide array of content and I've yet to see anything thing Pro-Trump or Pro-Russian.
It's there, I also watched a wide variety of YT and it's full of pro Russian and pro trump junk
The closest I get to watching political content on YT is Peter Zeihan so the algorithm simply doesn't put political junk in my feed. If you're getting tons of politics, from either direction, in your feed its probably because you are watching political content on YT.
That's the best explanation I can come up with about why our experiences are so different.
I do my best to avoid it, but I do watch things related to climate change, which for some reason some people thing is political.
it is made political by people who deny it as part of their identity.
Wouldn't you be able to say the same thing about Facebook and Twitter?
The issue with those networks is that they don't react to reports. They also don't allow to downvote.
It is especially visible with YouTube which had downvoting from the start and decided to remove it despite user protests.
They are tuned to promote controversial topics, which disinformation thrives with.
I don't know. I haven't used Xitter since before Elon took it over and I'm only on FB once every couple of months.
Wait, you don't have a thumbs down button on YouTube?
I mean statistics. Now it makes it easier to simply ignore it and promote video to others despite it being unpopular (for example conspiracies).
Which is what will happen if you maintain a well curated feed. But most people don't apply 'dont recommend channel' at the first sign of bullshit, so their feeds get filled with it in the fullness of time.
I do! I kept spamming do not recommend on the shorts and it keeps pushing shit like that haha.
Do not recommend on videos doesn't work in my experience, you have to do not recommend channel and then be consistent about not clicking on it when other similar content comes up
I accidentally started a video way outside my usual feed. It was some right wing fascist starting to talk about replacement theory bullshit. I closed it fast, but it was like a starter gun for YT to race every kind of conspiracy theory, right wing, Nazi supporting, women hating, christofascist channel it could try out to me. I had to block channel after channel for weeks until it gave up.
It's hard because I would usually consume their videos on mobile. But instead I've just cut YT out of my life.
I don't even do that! I've just never spent any time watching political stuff on YT so presumably the algorithm knows I'm not interested in it and doesn't show it to me.
yeah the issue is for people who do show an interest in politics, the algorithm is designed to hold their attention as long as possible, and that means more and more radicalized content.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html