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I've been using YouTube as my primary source of entertainment since 2009. I don't think I've looked at the trending page even once.
Has the internet ever been a 'monoculture'?
The trending page of YT is like the r/all of Reddit. If I want to see some stuff I couldn't care less about, that's where I'll find it. I have no idea who actually uses that, but I've never found anything of value there.
The crazy part, IMO, is that there is no way to filter that crap, at all. I'd love a good "front-page" but no.
Subscribe to the stuff you care about and ignore everything else. Check the other feeds only when you’re looking for something new.
The recommendation algorithm of YT is actually reasonably good at finding stuff worth watching. Whatever janky trash Reddit calls an algorithm is clearly serving the company more than anyone else.
Lemmy doesn’t even have that kind of an algorithm, so you’ll have to check places like !communitypromo@lemmy.ca when you’re looking for new and interesting stuff. IMO reading the all feed is an exercise in futility, unless you’re really interested in random memes.
I partly watched 1 "psychology" video, it was branded as Karl Jung so mebbe interesting, but it was some "intelligent people suffer more" bullshit, and now I have had to manually block over 10 channels of that type (9 signs a woman likes you, How to know someone takes advantage of you! etc etc) to just "get back" to being served only 4-5 of my 40+ subscriptions.
So IMO it's worse than just serving me what I asked for...
That used to be a problem like 5-10 years ago. If you clicked something, YT used to think you must love that stuff, and would never forget that unfortunate click. Nowadays though, downvoting and watch time are taken more seriously by the algorithm. If I find some trash, I just give it a thumbs down and stop watching immediately. Seems to work pretty well for me.