What I find even weirder (kind of) is that the top recommendations are not only very polarizing and politically loaded (vaccines, convoy, "evil agenda", "journalistic hypocrisy" and police violence), 5/6 in the top row have literally 2 views. So it's not that they've generated engagement to end up there, the algorithm straight up defaults to promoting them.
And what's even more wild is that every single one of those videos has a click-bait title and thumbnail.
I think it's always telling which creatives are the first to 'defect' to a new platform and it seems like all of these 'open streaming alternatives' just attract the people who failed to gain traction on closed platforms (rather than people who actually care about the technology).
