alt Hacker NewsAnecdotal to myself. I shamefully sometimes use TikTok, I particularly like recipe clips and even I noticed something in the last week, most noticeably around this weekend where the algorithm for recommendations changed. It’s like they completely wiped my preferences. I try not to watch anything political so I cannot say much about censorship of content but something was noticeable in the last week.
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Same experience here, and also I noticed several channels I used to be following I was no longer following after the hand offs. The feed is completely different now.
Something definitely broke.
Have you been using it for long?
I no longer use TikTok, but I was pretty hooked for a while, and I felt those “waves” every now and then.
It was pretty noticeable because each time I started getting extreme right political content from my country, and I neither consume anything local nor right wing content.
It does this all the time. I think it is called "exploration injection". It increases engagement by trying to prevent boredom.