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0 pointsdiarrhea5y ago0 comments

That works, but wouldn't for me. Discovery is precisely the primary service YouTube does for me. I really only ever click around the top two rows on the main page, all automatic YouTube suggestions. They are relevant and interesting enough for this to work consistently.

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OJFord5y ago

Interesting. Mine are awful, spam-level awful. (Even when I had an account and subscriptions.)

But I think my point stands - recommendations don't actually need any network effect, or to be done by YouTube itself. You could have a third-party/OSS recommender, it's just pretty niche and probably doesn't exist.

IMO YouTube can be used as a dumb content store. It's on the creator side that it has the 'network effect' handcuffs - it's the content store everyone goes to, so if you make content, it's where you need to store it।

selykg5y ago

Discovery for me is pretty good generally.

I try to watch high quality content on YouTube, or at least high quality for the areas of interest for me.

For that reason it really tends to recommend pretty good stuff for me.

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