Shorts fucking suck. It keeps recommending to me exactly four types of videos:

• stuff I have already watched, liked and commented -- sometimes a few minutes prior
• videos I'm wildly uninterested with and systematically mark as irrelevant or instantly skip, yet it keeps bringing up videos of the same subject
• very old old "news" shorts
• stuff of people I'm subscribed to -- which is fine, just not what makes great algorithms

Meanwhile, in a very short time, tiktok has managed to make me discover communities I had no idea I'd like to watch content from, while subtly managing to stop showing me some of the content from those communities I don't enjoy