It used to be a nice Library. Now its a nice Library but with every book screaming at you as you pass by - please pay attention to me please. The sky will fall if you dont. No one has any humility anymore. Or the value of humility has dropped to 0.<p>As Goldhaber famously said people have Limits to how much Attention they can give anything but somehow no limits to recieving Attention. No one knows why.<p>The platforms have all chosen to exploit that asymmetry rather treating it with some dignity. The end result is too many people crave or think they deserve the worlds attention and all the time. If they dont get it then they now believe they are broken and failures.<p>So if something gets 10 views youtube doesnt tell the creator those 10 people have gone off to watch 50 other things. So people are getting a constant false signal on how much real Attention they are actually getting. Some day hopefully this will change.

I haven't noticed.<p>I don't have my YouTube recommendations turned on, I only go to YouTube when I actually have a video in mind to watch.<p>And I still see quality stuff in my searches.

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