When I check my recommended feed it's all stuff very closely related stuff to my subscriptions and recent views, and some useless shorts. It's just an echo chamber at this point.
If I'm looking for potentially interesting content outside my core subscription views, I'm better served by turning on FM radio.
I actually want it to stop “recommending” and be a year 200x youtube when you could randomly stumble upon something interesting and follow it. Today’s youtube really feels like a chamber, a very secure one.
it's not an echo chamber unless you tell it to be.
all those videos in your watch history? others have watched those videos, too. youtube will recommend videos that those others have watched and that you have not.
the narrower the focus of your viewed videos, the narrower the focus of the recommendations will be.
If I'm looking for potentially interesting content outside my core subscription views, I'm better served by turning on FM radio.