• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    Remember that watch history has the largest impact on what recommended videos will appear in his feed.

    Curating the watch history is insanely effective, I have done it for a decade and it has helped me keep my feed 92% politics free, and 98% toxic masculinity free, I never knew about Tate until I started seeing reddit posts about what a terrible person he is.

    I would actually show him this when he is old enough.

    My strategy about this was to remove any content I don’t specifically want recommendations from, but has shifted to a more permissive stance where I will focus on removing videos that specifically harms my recommendations.

    • protist@mander.xyz
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      4 hours ago

      Definitely the case! I’m not always on top of this myself, but I do go in and remove anything that may poison my recommendations. At this point, I just get plants, history, and a splash of comedy. Thank you for bringing this to the fore!