TheCompassMaker@beehaw.orgtoTechnology@beehaw.org•YouTube will soon require watch history to be enabled to show video suggestions
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1 year agoEven if youtube wasnt already recording watch history under the table, all the data that youtube needs to generate meaningful recommendations is already there in my subscription list.
I think this should be a warning to anyone running a federated socmed node. Since twitter had to deal with an absolutely massive userbase and high content generation rate, moderation required a full time department and even then it wasn’t perfect. Imagine having to deal with that as a large node admin.