Is the YouTube algorithm is the key to success on YouTube? Let's find out! In this video, Taha explores how we reached 1 million subscribers by taking a deep dive into the beating heart of success on YouTube, the recommendation algorithm. Along the way, he accidentally plots the entire history of the YouTube algorithm. (pls don't ask me about youtube shorts, it's a whole can of worms)
Minchin is such an interesting person. I went ahead and ordered the book immediately.
A nice companion piece to the "modernity is stupid" article I bookmarked before.
the Internet’s business model is betrayal. Every mature social media platform has betrayed us. Every big search engine has betrayed us.
Really good article on how things are at the moment.
Hm.
Well, that's a bit of a bummer, isn't it?
Oh, this is indeed nice. I haven't watched a YouTube premiere in quite a while so I didn't notice they added more options
Very good summary of the current state of the search for MH370
A good little overview about the weird clickbait thumbnails for MH370 videos. And he's right: you should watch the Mentour Pilot one, it is really well done.
It's all so strange
Thumbs up
Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these people
Money ruins everything
Oh wow. This is good.
These days its all meme accounts
This is probably the best headline of the month
That doesn't make the bicycle guy look particularly good.
Probably the most Tom Scott way of saying goodbye. What a guy.
This is why we can't have nice things.
It's a bit sad but yes. Sure, there's Mastodon but even there it doesn't just feel the same.
This is interesting. I didn't expect POSSE explained on The Verge in that much detail
This is quite strange
I'm not on threads (because Europe) but this is still highly amusing to me. I guess that's how religions start?
Instagram users accuse platform of censoring posts supporting Palestine #
Good grief.
I feel this loss of community online every day.
Looking at planes is fun
Absolutely. I do miss the short time when people just used the things we now call social media for fun but maybe it is okay the way it is right now.
I guess it's performance art?
Honestly: yes. I just feel bad for people who haven't found their group chats, yet.
We like things not just because we’re exposed to them, but because, before exposure, we have opened our hearts to liking them.
According to that filter I look old already anyway. I couldn't see any difference between the two pictures.