It still is ‘your’ fault. Your interactions feed the algorithm, but it's not like it distinguishes between a dunk and a praise. If your interactions are based on being a piece of shit to other people, that's not a problem with the algorithm. It's a problem with you.

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Big thanks to #ElonMusk honestly. Although he misleadingly frames it as "your" fault, what he is explaining here is that #Twitter's algorithm is de...

Ok, let's expand on this, because I think it's an interesting topic: if you buy a dishwasher online, what will the algorithm recommend you buy next? Exactly: more dishwashers.

All the algorithm knows is that a dishwasher is similar to another, and that people who viewed one, probably viewed other models (they obviously did it to compare, but the algorithm is not that smart), so, from its point of view, the recommendation makes sense.

Same thing happens with videos on YouTube. If you watch a video on some current topic, the algorithm will recommend more of the same. The algorithm doesn't take into account things like your ideology, for instance, or even your nationality, so, yes, it might recommend things that you may not like, but that's just a side effect, not the intended purpose, which is that you keep watching videos, not that you get angry at them. Check the comments on the videos of the channels you usually watch. Most of them are in praise of the one who did it. Most negative comments come from dogpiling campaigns created by humans.

After all, if the algorithm was that good, how come everyone has been recommended things that they're not interested in at all, or not even remotely linked to their interests?

So, when you get angry at anything on the Internet, don't blame the algorithm. Blame yourself for lacking critical thinking skills and self-consciousness, and following self-proclaimed influencers.

It _is_ your fault.

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@josemanuel When you, the male, gets married, you know that everything is your fault. :) Of course, the 'other' says we blame her for everything. **This is an attempt at humour**

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