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Bubble Busters

I feel a weird urge to confuse the algorithms that orchestrate my feed. These algorithms are based on statistics, on what I or others like me have watched, shared or liked in the past.

This causes your feed to be inherently much of the same content, most algorithms sprinkle in some things randomly to make sure you don't end up in a local optimum of Japanese cat videos. That said, overall I get much of the same stuff over and over.

The worst offender is probably Spotify, finding new music through their radio feature used to be amazing. Now it's kinda junk.

So to bust my Spotify bubble I collect some "out of distribution" songs in a playlist and listen to that a few times in the hope to convince Spotify to play me something different than the same 5 songs over and over.

Here is a song to confuse your algorithm (unless you're Italian):
I Pomeriggi by Giorgio Poi