[oefrha]

It also seems very easy to take recommendation into your own hands on TikTok with long press -> “not interested”, which is very accessible. Once I started to get quite a bit of political / cultural war crap in my feed; I “not interested” a few of them, the feed improved markedly almost immediately. With YouTube I guess you can sort of influence your recommendations by digging into your watch history and deleting a bunch of stuff, but it’s tedious and ineffective. “Not interested” on YouTube front page seems useless, I still get pushed the same repetitive stuff, maybe from another set of channels.

[Clampower]

TikTok and HN (to a lesser degree) are the only places that don’t force feed me racial culture war stuff.

[dmitriid]

> with long press -> “not interested”, which is very accessible

First time I heard about it. If it's hidden behind an undiscoverable gesture/tap, it's not accessible.

[oefrha]

IIRC it’s among the first things they onboard you about. It’s also in the share menu, you should have seen it if you ever tried to download or share a video, or create a duet, or something. Long press is just an easy way to bring it up. Given the percentage of people commenting on TikTok threads who’ve never used it, “first time I heard about it” doesn’t mean much.

[Ekaros]

"Don't recommend channel" is very effective for me to ignore creators I just don't care about or content I'm at moment not interested in.