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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Shorts fucking suck. It keeps recommending to me exactly four types of videos:

  • stuff I have already watched, liked and commented -- sometimes a few minutes prior
  • videos I'm wildly uninterested with and systematically mark as irrelevant or instantly skip, yet it keeps bringing up videos of the same subject
  • very old old "news" shorts
  • stuff of people I'm subscribed to -- which is fine, just not what makes great algorithms

Meanwhile, in a very short time, tiktok has managed to make me discover communities I had no idea I'd like to watch content from, while subtly managing to stop showing me some of the content from those communities I don't enjoy