Now, it has come to my attention over the years, that youtube has very specific designs that make political propaganda more effective, I want to create a master list of functions that are omitted and functions that are included to make it less useable, less functional and less open/free as it could be/should be.

just to note the most basic:

ALGORYTHMIC SUPPRESSION OF ANTIWAR/LEFTIST/HISTORY CONTENT

Search function that does not allow proper setting of specifics

Search results filled with non-search related videos

Video suggestions being pushed constantly, specifically rightwing content (Jordan Peterson, Peter Molyneux, Ben Shapiro, Tim Pool, Joe Rogan(not himself rightwing but 99% of his guests)

300.000 bot accounts that autofill new think tank financed influencers likes to amp them to the search suggestion feed

comment replies are not forwarded to you, so the last answer to a pinned comment can be overridden by whataboutist bots to be invisible to the next user

No option to BLOCK content properly, I cannot create a term based filter-list as in ANY email application in existence. NOT POSSIBLE ON YOUTUBE ON PURPOSE

Now: fill me in on your experiences

  • BreadbeardOP
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    22 years ago

    I like his topical stuff, if I want information about geopolitics outside of the US, i ll skip US entertainers anyways