[vemv]

I like going on Youtube and see what gets recommended to me, sometimes I discover useful/entertaining stuff that way. But most times, the recommendations tend to be terrible:

- repetitive, as if they insisted in the same specific video dozens of times

- not using the full breadth of a given channel I've subscribed to, e.g. just recommending a few videos out of 100s

- recommending stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with my interests, simply because it's going viral or it's been a previous big hit in the mainstream

- similar channels almost never get recommended to me. This would be super useful, since maybe I'm subscribed to 5 channels for a specific topic, but I could be subscribed to 20 as well - I just can't find them naturally

A good recommendation algorithm might be worth paying for, as it could provide endless entertainment.

[teucris]

This mirrors my experience. My theory is that YouTube falsely equivocates a video’s relevance to you with your desire to receive notifications about it - e.g. whether you clicked the little ‘bell’ when subscribing. This isn’t what we expect - I personally go to my feed to sees what’s new, but that’s not what YouTube creates the feed for. I don’t know what it makes the feed for, honestly.

[XCSme]

I think their recommendations are really, really good.

To help the system you can click "not interested" to recommendations that you don't like, and you can also click the bell next to subscribe to get always get recommended and notifications for the creators you like.

Usually if I don't like the recommendations on the front page I just refresh, I get different ones.

Recommandations are hard because even for you, as an individual, they differet from one day to another and even from hour to hour, based on what you are in the mood to watch.

[zihotki]

I've been trying to fine-tune my recommendation list by clicking on "not interested" and "don't recommend channel". "Not interested" option just removes a video and doesn't adjust anything according to what I observed. "Don't recommend channel" does a thing but after several months the channel again pops out on the recommendation list. Especially annoying reaction videos which I never watched and will never do.

Also when I try to refresh the front page I still see the same videos all over again in different order.

[tylerdinner]

I feel like the rise of channel subscriptions has caused the recommendation algorithm to act like a dog chasing its tail. You get so silo'd with content on youtube reccs these days, it's really sad.