I worked hard to make my youtube feed mostly free of political content.
One time, PragerU stuff starts appearing in my recommendation....I cannot ban it fast enough.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted for this. Maybe HN readers are mostly far-right, lol.
I have noticed that there is a contingent that seems to downvote but not respond to new comments with leftward inclination. Usually the comments recover but presumably enough do not that it’s worth the effort.
Indeed, there is a recurring pattern of targeted silent downvotes.
Ehn, I'm not concerned about downvotes, but this is the first comment I've ever made that I have watched consistently fluctuate between 4 and 9 points each time I come back which is kind of funny.
Never worried but always interested in observing patterns of behavior from over here
It’s a very real thing.
Yeah. “Neo-liberal” is defiantly not how I’d describe YouTube political content. Everything I get is far right bullshit.
I think the youtube algo just serves you what it thinks will get you engaged (hate watching?). In the past I've gotten both right and left extremist content. I eventually set my youtube settings to delete everything that is older than 3 months, my feed has been way more usable since I did that. That plus using revanced to remove all the stupid shorts and news/promo sections from the app.
YouTube always gives me the vague “people in your area and time of day” answer, which is totally bullshit. It’s content driven. You watch a video about fighter jets, or Ukraine, get Matt Walsh telling you how we have to eliminate trans kids. Watch an Alan Watts or Terrance McKenna video, get an ad about how the ancient Egyptians used magic flutes to generate antigravity fields to build the pyramids.