YouTube Recommendation Algorithm

People go to YT because of the discovery algorithm.

I just put on YouTube kids and let the algorithm take the wheel. What could go wrong?

Sounds like their algo has reached youtube recommender/ranking algo level of "we don't know what the black box does, we just try to fix it when it fucks up"

I think youtube is deliberately not showing good recommendations to boost ad revenue

people like the youtube algorithm?

It's possible that the YTers complaining about this are affected once you bring the algorithm into it.

I got this feeling the YT algorithm is sticky and like "chooses" who to promote in some self reinforcing loop.

It's not just you, same exact issue here. YouTube algorithm has gone down the drain in the past few years.

I've noticed this as well, the algorithm hones in on a few topics and videos. Interestingly enough, so does the algorithm on the Quora app. I hate this behavior, I want to use a recommendation algorithm to discover new similar content. My guess is that a "new similar content" algorithm doesn't get the same levels of engagement. Maybe its the same as radio stations playing the same twenty songs on a loop.Clearly google knows what their doing, its just disheartening that thi

I actually don't think that's the story here. The story is that irrespective of content, the YT algorithm optimises for maximum viewing time, and it takes the behaviour of other people into account when making recommendations to you, to an extent that seems to cause a snowball effect once the recommendations start.What if YouTube... didn't do that? It's already enormously successful, and could just show you other shows by the same user in the post-roll. Or videos in the sa