#I HATE ALGORITHMS

[platypusisnotonfire]

Does anyone have some recommendations on YouTube channels that have like…idk how to say this but like ….actually informative documentaries or interesting people doing crafts or just….

Idk I used to have a pretty fun « recommended> page that was about 90% stuff I was actually interested in and upon a google search were like a verified historian or physicist or whatever.

But I watched a few too many of Dustin’s «am I the red flag » videos in a row that the algorithm got totally garbled and all I’m getting is low effort tiktok reaction videos and clickbait on my whole page.

[mimi567890]

Day 17 - November 10, 2024 🌫️

Another fun productive day. Went to church ⛪️ with my friend and then we went to the library for a bit of studying. 📚

I’m mostly just studying for my next test and preparing for some interviews i have this week.

Hoping I actually get a job 🤞

I am not doing so well in my algorithms class and honestly im just trying to pass the course with a decent grade now. 😶

[l0vagrend]

how it feels to schedule oc art when not even my fanart is performing well atm

[starfruitcid3r]

Why is the Pinterest algorithm so bad?

I have few vices as far as social media goes; I limit myself to YouTube and Pinterest and those keep me sufficiently online. I go back to these sites again and again not because they are always exceedingly entertaining, but because I am able to see many of my interests compiled before my eyes for my investigation, especially on Pinterest. When I visit it, a colorful collage of Images is set before me. Whether I engage with these interests in the physical world or not is irrellevant; I am able to experience the dope rush associated with them vicariously through these images.

But today, I was browsing as normal and I refreshed the page to find myself looking at like some uncanny rendering of my tastes on paper. A chunk of black and white TikTok screenshots of trad goth folk, like six consecutive ads for car organizers on aliexpress, and multiple veins of Jenna Ortega stock photos. These things make sense to show me if you are an amnesiac robot. Indeed, my tastes include goth fashion, I was looking at car accessories, and Jenna Ortega is like cool I guess, but I haven't saved such overt trad-gothiness in a bit, I have not been overly interested in such elaborate car organization systems, and I saved a couple pins of Jenna Ortega's character from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice because I liked her costume weeks ago.

The Pinterest algorithm is known to me as addicting at best, temperamental and frustrating at worst, which is to say that sometimes it works rather beautifully, serving me my delicious images on a silver platter; things I want to see and have been looking at. But then, sometimes it turns on a dime and shows me beachy mainstream influencers I've never seen or heard of, softcore porn, and large clusters of similar images in waves that are inspired by one thing you saved ages ago. Even when the algorithm is working normally, search results are annoyingly hyper-curated (ex. if I've been looking at Tudor fashion and suddenly switch to something adjacent but distinct it will bleed into the search results terribly). Others have complained of looking at one thing one time and then getting only that recommended to them for a while, but I don't experience that too badly most of the time.

Another quite bothersome thing is the constant updates to the app. Sometimes bugs are fixed but the nigh constant unnecessary changes to the UI just introduces new ones and makes the user experience worse. Never have I once noticed an update and been like "Ah, what a nice change!" it was fine like 4 updates ago when we could swipe down on pins to go back to the previous page and scroll through super long images instead of just viewing them incomprehensibly as incredibly skinny rectangles scaled to fit entirely on a phone screen.

The ONE nice thing is it does seem that they have added a "AI modified" tag (seemingly desktop only) to some images, but this confuses me further because I have only just noticed it today and when I looked it up to find out more, I found a Reddit post from 4 months ago noting it. An artist commented that some of their original lineart had been tagged as "AI modified", and another commenter described how those using AI on the dl could easily circumvent this sad attempt by Pinterest to seem on top of things. My point here is a) Pinterest is bad as rolling out updates(?) and b) Pinterest is bad at moderating the AI content slowly overtaking the platform (but who isn't ig?).

Edit: images to exemplify my points

Jenna Ortega is extremely cool I'm sure but I saved 3 pins of her in the specific Beetlejuice II costume ages and ages ago

2. Who is she ?? ft. more Jenna Ortega and a comic I am not familiar with

3. I would get more images but it's back to normal now. WHY does the algorithm just periodically get horrible like a forest creature at a blood moon ??

[chibishortdeath]

A recent Simon doodle ft. a couple different filters on it, it’s sketch, and another similar perspective practice. Blood is so fun to draw. :3

[queenvash]

before you continue: minors do not interact. i’m +21.

i don’t have anyone to talk to about one of my fire emblem fanfic ideas, thanks to the algorithm on this cursed site i doubt that this will reach anyone.

but if i’m lucky… does anyone want to be mutuals? i love fire emblem (three houses) and trigun.

i have a dimitri/felix fic idea that i really want to talk about, but most of my friends on discord are either busy with work or college, or are asleep due to timezones. my best friend lives +14 hours ahead of me too.

[lucid9158]

Me when Beefleaf angst (LEAVE ME ALONE):

[arctic-hands]

I find ONE social media dietician who has G.I issues and actually seems to know what she's talking about regarding it and doesn't shame you for eating cookies and that all foods are good food if you like it but also here's how to get adequate nutrition and fiber daily if your tummy is feeling yucky and all you want is cheeze balls, so I follow for some tasty yet nutritous recipes while I deal with the onset of liver disease while having lifeline IBD, celiac, and food allergies...

and now my YouTube algorithm is full of shit diet influencers, "clean eating" recipes that look like vomit, and body shaming 😒

[thechocobros]

I want to boost my Etsy shop, so …

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[annananamustdie]

yesterday I was on bpd tumblr today I am on SpongeBob tumblr

[rubbership]

really hate that if you have rhe "show posts based off my likes" option on tumblr that if you like posts that discuss things like CSA and trauma they'll just start pumping your dash full of untagged incest and rape fantasies. like it literally makes me feel like im being sexually harrassed. im appreciative you can turn it off but god i forgot o had that option on on my art blog and was just scrolling. 3 posts in a row. 😓

[funforahermit]

what are these supposed "life hack" videos on instagram; it's just dumb shit that saves no apparent purpose and you kind of watch till the end to see if there's gonna be a point to it but there never is??

[victorzsasz]

You know what Tumblr? Yeah, maybe I will...

[weepingfoxfury]

The man on the radio is riding high on Monday's wave of remembering Val Doonican. Ah yes, those ladies in the floaty dresses, the rocking chair and the signature cardigan. Not my cup of tea but I'd still take a pot full of Val over a barrel full of algorithmic bilge water. Weatherwise we're looking at damp, with some more damp and a heavy side order of damp. The traffic lady came and went whilst I wasn't listening.

Today's groaner: a chicken and an egg walk into a bar and the bartender asks "Who's first?" ;-D badoom tish ... here all week!!

The mock orange (philadelphus) has flowered once more. Beautiful!! Started it's display about 4 years ago. Not planted by me, just another nomad that put down roots. I had one before years ago and was sad as hell, once I sold that house, to see the new occupants hack it (and all the other plants) down just to widen the driveway. Warms my heart to have another one.

Monday, Monday, Monday on another Tuesday in Tuesdayville. Here's July and they started showing Christmas films back in June. The world is continually chaotic ... at least the coffee is consistent ...

[darkmuse112-og]

I reblogged ONE thing about a new medical show and now Tumblr thinks it's all I want to see.

I hate algorithms when it comes to social media feeds. That one action fucked the feed that I've been curating for 15 whole years. Like... no.

[spooniebuggy]

Why is tumblr so unusable on desktop?

To get to my mutuals' posts I have to scroll a bunch of recommended tags/"because you follow #[X]" and shit even when I use XKit. I want it to stop.