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by biohcacker84 509 days ago
Isn't the algorithm publicly known? Any video show it to at least one person, if they watch it show it to more.

Which people on TikTok early on called the most fair algorithm. However, I suspect Youtube initially had the same or a very similar one.

And in both cases I suspect once the app becomes very popular the algorithm is updated to be more profitable, whatever that requires.

In other words, enshittification affects everything.

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> In other words, enshittification affects everything.

The presence of this comment in every HN thread is a meta-example.