Hahahaha I remember when TicTok was newish a friend of mine (who never once actually used TikTok) boomerly complained that it was “just underage girls twerking”.

He then proceeded to get roasted to hell and back the rest of the night, because Tiktock was famous for its algorithm showing you what you want to see. One boomer lying whine, and then 4 hours of being on blast and forever’s worth of random inside jokes on him.

If you think you’re not seeing propaganda, you are not seeing the propaganda.

Okay but YouTube suggested videos are genuinely way worse than they used to be. I can’t even fall down rabbit holes anymore. Trying to “curate” the algorithm is like swimming against the current. I can try and try to get YouTube to recommend me live music, but even when I manage to find something, the next video is going to be either a video I already watched yesterday or Rick Beato’s daily rant about the top 40. Every time.

I used to be able to spend hours just browsing, drifting from topic to topic. Now it’s like they’re trying to trap me in a loop of their most profitable videos

I loved that guy, politician I think, who said “This app is disgusting. It’s just full of nearly naked young girls!” and everyone was like my dude, it’s an algorithm, that’s on you.

i like platforms where i can curate what i see

holy shit that’s boomer zoomer as fuck

If you give Abbie Richards a watch/read, she’ll educate you on how easy it is for TikTok to become a right-wing misinformation playground.

YT basically just sends me comedy sketches and bad sci-fi shorts. Lemmy basically sends me memes about popular culture and science… And that’s it, those are the feeds that exist, right?

Did what go wrong?

Never used TikTok (which is what I assume “TT” means). Don’t have a YouTube account, use it very little anyway.

So what’s the question again?