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As the title states, what's your opinion on Algorithms? The internet is FILLED with it. Everything is all about algorithms so I'm curious at your takes on it?
Here's mine: I HATE them... The only algorithm I've ever found to be half decent is oddly enough Instagram. The rest are awful. I hate the concept of designing your site to try and hold onto your attention as much as possible in the worst ways possible. Instead of giving us freedom of expressions, they strip that, and instead shove feeds after feeds down our throat. "HEY!!!! You were on this post for 2.6 seconds longer than normal. You must LOVE this content! *Proceeds to show you that content for a week straight*". It makes it so only the biggest people get seen 90% of the time, and the rest of the content is just silence in the void. There's no more natural growth now, it's all artificial and it is entirely monetization based at the cost of the users. People can't blow up anymore, and if a single thing does you have to try and milk that as much as possible while also being forced to cater everything around that one post if you want to be successful. If you don't then there's not even a point in posting anything anymore half the time unless it's short form content. I personally just wish we went back to the 10 tag days. Hashtags, youtube tags, whatever. It'd feature content with similar tags and that is it whilst also forcing you to figure out what tags you'd like to make your video about. It's simple, and it's easier to go down the 'rabbit hole' which you simply cannot do anymore with modern day algorithms. You're NEVER shown content without much views anymore :')
Here's mine: I HATE them... The only algorithm I've ever found to be half decent is oddly enough Instagram. The rest are awful. I hate the concept of designing your site to try and hold onto your attention as much as possible in the worst ways possible. Instead of giving us freedom of expressions, they strip that, and instead shove feeds after feeds down our throat. "HEY!!!! You were on this post for 2.6 seconds longer than normal. You must LOVE this content! *Proceeds to show you that content for a week straight*". It makes it so only the biggest people get seen 90% of the time, and the rest of the content is just silence in the void. There's no more natural growth now, it's all artificial and it is entirely monetization based at the cost of the users. People can't blow up anymore, and if a single thing does you have to try and milk that as much as possible while also being forced to cater everything around that one post if you want to be successful. If you don't then there's not even a point in posting anything anymore half the time unless it's short form content. I personally just wish we went back to the 10 tag days. Hashtags, youtube tags, whatever. It'd feature content with similar tags and that is it whilst also forcing you to figure out what tags you'd like to make your video about. It's simple, and it's easier to go down the 'rabbit hole' which you simply cannot do anymore with modern day algorithms. You're NEVER shown content without much views anymore :')
