I love not being bombarded by ads thanks to pihole and adblockers. I don’t have cable TV either. But without browsing netlifx/Hulu/etc. how do you actually find stuff to watch and discover worthwhile shows and movies to rent from my library?

  • @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    That’s what is mainstream popular. How do you find stuff you actually like ?

    Only a system that you have trained with like/dislike and can compare with other sets of content preference similar to yours will find that precious “content similar to your preferences but you haven’t seen yet”

    That’s a content recommendation engine.

    Now the questions is, how can we each run our owm self hosted recommemder engine which will share our list to others automatically so that we can pool it all together and create a useful recommender engine.

    Without that, we have to rely on the artificial mainstream mush like marvel movie #27

    • @Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      That’s what conversions conversations with actual people are for.

      I collect vast amounts of media of all sorts, then look through it based on recommendations from friends/family, as well as looking at actors/studios/genres I enjoy.

      I don’t need everything fed to me by a computer, I’ll explore my own interests.

      • @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        Well letting other people choose for you is not really discovery. When too many people abdicate this responsibility, art becone whatever profitable mush advertisers shovel in our face.

        That’s how we get avengers 23 and batman 15.

        You can also try random selection, or choose by the first letter of the title. Or decide with the cover.

        Or you can have a system that considers what you actually like, finds people that like the same stuff as you, and then suggest other stuff that they like which you have not heard.

        That’s how “the algorithm” works for youtube & netflix.

        I want that, but running offline on my computer, disconnected from the internet.