I don’t know why but the TikTok algorithm never really “got me”. I watch a video of say “slimes” then it gives me like 8 more videos about slimes, which I then swipe away becasue I don’t really care about them that much. Then I repeat that with other topics and TikTok sort of got confused.
Fast forward some time…
Now my TikTok feed is 100% Spanish and I’m only A2-B1 in fluency.
I know exactly why TikTok’s algorithm never got me - because I never signed up.
Technically true is the best kind of true.
No algorithm can handle my ADHD. One day all I watch are videos about WW2, the next its only cake recipes
It could be ADHD, but I feel it’s personality trait of not liking the same thing. My spotify playlists are over 250-400 hours long because I’m not a big fan of listening to the same music over and over.
PlaylistS as there’s more than one of them, measured in fortnights? What are the themes/subjects/vibes/eras and wtf? Sry, I ran out of coherent words
I think the trick is to let the kids rile up your feed sometimes.
Not for long! You’ll learn the language eventually, if TikTok is stubborn enough
What’s that mean with respect to fluency?
If I struggle I can figure out what they are saying… most of the time. But I often have to like listen to it twice to get it.
Gotcha, that’s about where I am too. What are the letters you referenced though? Is there some widely used system to evaluate language skills?
Oh, I misread! The letters are a rough measurement of fluency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages?wprov=sfla1
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I wish that these platforms had better options for having multiple DIFFERENT algorithms that would be easy to switch between. I think this is specifically referencing Tik Tok, which I’ve never used myself, but it applies to things like YouTube too.
Sometimes I want to go down a rabbit hole of music, gerting fed content about musical equipment or videos from new bands that might interest me, or talking about music theory. Sometimes it’s crafting- woodworking, metal working, 3D printing. Sometimes it’s information about TV or movies or videogames or books. Sometimes I want to dive into history or engineering.
All of these very different watching “moods” are using the same account with the same algorithm. And maybe you could argue for making multiple accounts and switching, but that seems like a pain. And while I don’t pay them, if I did then the multiple different accounts would be an issue.
I’ve really appreciated Lemmy features, although some might just be specific to the Connect app. Its very easy and simple to have different accounts, usually on different instances, that I switch for different things. It’s easy to set up a “multi” to group similar communities together into one feed. I wish all the apps for media consumption were like that.
I don’t know about other platforms but removing watched videos from your watch history on YouTube alters what’s recommended. So if you search and purge all videos on a certain topics, videos about that topic are far less likely to come up as recommended.
It becomes like hygiene. Watched a video about AI? Go remove it from your watch history. Too many true crime videos coming up? Delete all crime related videos from your watch history.
I try to limit mine to short animation and science/DIY videos.
I appreciate that, but I’m not trying to avoid videos. I mean that at different times I want to watch different things. Something on in the background while I work, something to watch while I’m working out, something to sit down on the couch on my living room tv and direct all of my attention to.
So I don’t want to be constantly making permanent changes to my account, but rather switch between different… Sub-accounts maybe? Profiles? Different customizable feeds?
The slime is alt right content and you basically described my parents
I mean, if you actually get as far as making content, then cool.
But mostly people get stuck at panel three.
The imitation game. Kids should be warned, they must choose their interests and look for what they really like, not the other way around
Reminds me of StumbleUpon. I miss it dearly, but it had this major flaw. You’d hit stumble and it would dump you to some random part or the internet based on your interests (assuming you selected any). Sometimes an article, sometimes a pic, video, joke, you name it. Based on what you like or dislike, it was supposed to yield better stumbles over time. Except it didn’t.
What would happen is that you would eventually make the fatal mistake of liking a single image of a horse or something, and every other goddamn result from that point forward was tailored to horse culture. The only solution was to go back in your count and remove everything you ever liked, then never, ever, ever like another goddamn horse again.
But using StumbleUpon with interests selected and absolutely no feedback was a truly wonderful thing. During my younger days abusing Adderall, I used to go so fucking deep down the archeology and Celtic mythology rabbit hole, to the point where I felt like I was the intrepid explorer who was unearthing these ancient secrets.
Slime is just liquid plastic, covered with shiny microplastics.
Corporations somehow manage to repackage their manufacturing waste into a novelty product and people eat that shit up. Sometimes literally.
Also ffs please let some hobbies just be hobbies and not another capitalist venture in monetizing your enjoyment out of an activity.
Somehow the Algorithm has decided to give me clips of those rotating shredding machines, the ones that look like giant paper shredders.
It do be like that.
I let my toddler on youtube shorts because its the only thing that gets her to sit still. Lucky for me i avoid all short form content as a matter of self-defence because my entire algorithm is tung tung tung tung tung tung tung sahur and sprunky.
