The idea that you can “reset your algorithm” by doing X or Y on corporate platfo...

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:10:06 GMT

The idea that you can “reset your algorithm” by doing X or Y on corporate platforms is absolutely ridiculous.

At most you can influence just a bit the way you are impacted by feeding it dislike or not interested actions but ultimately the corporations that own the algorithm enforce whatever it wants to every users.

You can’t “reset your algorithm” by watching 2 min shorts of nature or music or whatever. It’s an urban myth.

You can’t pray the algorithm to obtain a change, it’s a delusion.

The idea that if you land on a short is in itself a rare privilege encouraging you to like, comment or share the video is just another mechanism to manipulate the user, it has no impact whatsoever besides provoking a waterfall of similar content to keep you hooked.

In the same way, replacing words such as S*x or whatever words to avoid hurting one’s account against the algorithm is ridiculous.

People are self-censoring by pretending that masquerading keywords will avoid the algorithmic reranking of one’s post is another collective delusion. It’s like people adopt censorship thinking they can bypass algorithms or make their content surface better because it has S*x instead of Sex is beyond ridiculous.

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The idea that you can “reset your algorithm” by doing X or Y on corporate platfo...