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I only enjoy very specific hobby subs\forums. Beyond that you can't find anything because all the search engines rank to by ads. Looking for a real review is a joke, its all AI\bogus.
YT is getting worse w/ all the AI slop. I just stick to my channels that again are hobby/interests I have that haven't gone AI (yet).
I haven't been on FB for over 10 years, no IG, no tic flop, or other social media because its a nightmare.
I'm not encouraging you to use YouTube, but if you do, marking stuff you aren't interested in and removing every slop video from your watch history can help a lot. The YouTube algorithm very rarely recommends slop to me
Lately, YT has been serving me sort of schizo-slop. On the one hand, it's content I'm interested in, the base stories are good, the presentation isn't bad - but it's low effort and long running for no reason. A story that could be related in 15 seconds, well told in depth in 3-5 minutes is dragged out, repetitively repeating its few points for 20 minutes or more.
It's a vast improvement over the teaser text stories that used to promise you'd read something interesting if you just scrolled past 500 ads and click forward 50 pages - those became rather instantly recognizable as time-waste abuse 15+ years ago, low cost low quality writing from low paid humans. The new schizo-slop has a core of seemingly verifiable interest (if it's not actually verifiable it's a core of a well written believable fiction), and seems to be filling in around that core with verifiable interesting context, it's just taking 5-10x longer to present than is needed, or interesting, and I'm wondering what they think they're gaining by sucking people's attention in for so little in return?
I do this at least 5-10x a day, and they keep showing me the same shit from a different "account" same fucking stick man, same fucking asian guy with glasses, same old white fucker with white hair and glasses. I'm tired boss
Never tried that or considered it, thank you!
yw, also subscribing to the people providing good content should help too. Most of my feed is from subscriptions, with related content inbetween
This I have seen in action, one sub I like is Mount Baker Mining, which lead me to Dan Herd, then to Mine Operator, and others.