[ramblerouser]

Pewdiepie has the #1 spot on fairtrending and is no where on Youtube's trending.

Ellen Degeneres and Jimmy Falon are you Youtube trending but nowhere on fairtrending.

"Elitist corperate control over mass media is great because I don't like what normal people do." -people in this hackernews thread

[anonytrary]

> "Elitist corperate control over mass media is great because I don't like what normal people do." -people in this hackernews thread

This seems blown out of proportion. "I don't like what normal people do, so I will probably not look at trending to find content" is what most people are saying.

[ramblerouser]

Fairtrending isn't about recommending stuff you personally are interested in. It's designed to acurately report what is actually popular and not just being promoted by Youtube. I think that went over the head of the people complaining that their personalized recommendations are more interesting to them.

[anonytrary]

I think everyone gets that trending isn't personalized. It's possible that a lot of people have no interest in what is objectively trending, and defer to personalized subscriptions and other feeds. I'd imagine that most people are interested in what is trending (otherwise, it wouldn't really be trending), but HN is hardly a realistic sample of most people, so you can expect people here to be surprised that X, Y and Z are trending over the world.

[morsma]

Spot on!

[oliv__]

Define normal

[GW150914]

Pewdiepie has the #1 spot on fairtrending and is no where on Youtube's trending. Ellen Degeneres and Jimmy Falon are you Youtube trending but nowhere on fairtrending. "Elitist corperate control over mass media is great because I don't like what normal people do." -people in this hackernews thread

What about those of us who would rather stick a fork in our eye than watch PewDiePie, Degeneres, or Fallon? I’m not seeing the praise for what you’re calling “elitist corporate control,” so much as despair that the supposedly fair option is at least as hideous as the rigged option. Beyond that if we define normal as in Normal Distribution, then who’s fault is it if you expected to find the middle of that distribution on a site called Hacker News? Most people would be bored out of their skin on this site and that’s fine, just as it’s fine for a subset of the population with shared interests to enjoy it.

If you want normal as in average, you’re barking up the wrong tree, and FaceBook, Instagram, and the rest have you covered. If you’re seeing a lot of praise for the YT algorithm, rather than dislike of both algorithm and lack of curation, I must be missing it and you could maybe point it out?