I heavily use the "Not interested" and the "Do not recommend this channel" options a lot and don't click on clickbait, and use the DeArrow extension, and this way my front page looks quite good.

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wrxd 9 hours ago | parent [-]

At this point you’re doing almost as much work as if you handpicked a few channels and put them in your RSS reader.

Algorithms are sold as “curation is hard, the algorithm does it for you” but getting the algorithm to do a good job is actually a lot of work

	▲	bonoboTP 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		No, I often get nice recommendations from the long tail, like interesting academic talks or tinkerer channels, videos sometimes with only a few hundred views or even fewer.