Youtube is gradually making itself unusable. It’s not even just enshittification (although obviously it is that too), it’s just fucking stupid.
I watch one video debunking some chud’s opinion with a keen factual defense, and youtube starts recommending… more from that creator? More of the same from different creators? Haha no, here’s a bunch of vids by other chuds spewing maga/manosphere propaganda!
Thanks youtube!
I’ve recently been binge watching Midwest Safety videos. It’s like World’s wildest police chases but way better, and with bodycams.
They don’t publish much but USCSB videos are fascinating.
Food Wishes is a very old but consistently high quality, low chaff cooking channel.
Cave diver death stories are another favourite niche topic of mine.
Steve Mould, Stuff Made Here, Hyperspace Pirate and DIY Perks are quality science and tech video channels. I don’t know why I like watching videos of a fella making cryogenic coolers and liquid CO2 in his basement, but I do.
Clickspring is a great maker channel that feels like 20-40 minute long episodes of how it’s made (kinda)
He has playlists of his projects and he’s been making a period correct reproduction of the antikythra mechanism using the same bronze age tools of the ancient makers who created the original.
EEVBlog is fun if you know electronics and want to learn more. He does a phenomenal series on parts and pieces. He’s a layman’s wikipedia on “what’s an FPGA and why should I know?” As opposed to the more electrical engineering centric sources out there where you already need to know a lot to understand it. He’s entertaining and high energy (honestly he strikes me as someone with self managed bipolar or something. That’s the vibe I get since I’ve been friends with at least 4 others who present similar to Dave)
Tasting history, 18th century cooking, and table of the gods are both great historical cooking channels. Some of them will give the recipes for free for you to try at home.
Huygen’s optics is a channel run by a understated genius. He explains how optics and optical manufacturing works and he runs his own precision optics workshop in his basement. He once made a spirit bubble level for his pool table with an internal radius of like I’m (meaning it’s like carving a 15cm diameter circle out of a 16m wide sphere) so his level had like sub-arcsecond resolution iirc? A human hair underneath it would throw it off scale.
Applied Science is another amazing Science & engineering channel. He made his own back scatter computed tomography machine with a lazy Suzan, an X-ray tube, an Arduino, and a X-ray phosphorescence developer box/camera.
You should go through your YouTube history and delete all the stuff you wish you hadn’t watched so it stops recommending you junk.
I tried this… bunch of stuff kept getting repeated like I was the most hyperfocused person on earth, so I go into the history and remove a bunch of content related to it. Surely that’s driving the recommendations, right?
Well, the instant result is that it just recommended me back everything I’d deleted. Slow clap IRL
And, in a truly shocking development, it turns out the UX for trying to manipulate your history and recs is dogshit
Isn’t there a Not interested option in the context menus for all videos? Have you tried that since it seems to be the intended way to tune recommendations? As opposed tontrying to manipulate the view history.
Sure. Sometimes it even works, but it’s awkward and slow and tends to just recommend them again later anyway. That view history thing is supposedly the thing to try next.
Maybe you don’t know what you want and maybe google does and is trying to improve your life and you’re being all selfish and hurtful and inconsiderate, DID YOU THINK OF THAT??
yeah! we always say “hey Google” but not “how’s Google”
Corporations are people. People have feelings.
You should turn off your history and tracking and algorithm all together, and just search for things you want to watch. Also, only use the Subscriptions tab instead of Home tab.
I don’t have an account so I just reset my browser and start fresh.
They should turn their watch history off
I just did this. Turned the entire thing off so I have no youtube recommendations anymore, and then made sure I was subscribed to everyone I do enjoy watching (like 100+ channels). So now I just watch the same like 5 videos I actually wanted to watch that day, but without the garbage I wasn’t going to like anyway. I don’t think we realize how much the endless scrolling robs us of time and energy to enjoy the things we actually like.
You guys have history? I save anything worth looking at later in Watch Later or liked videos.
I have such a long backlog of interesting stuff saved in WL that youtube could churn out nothing but slop for the next 2 years straight and I wouldn’t get close to running out of videos to watch lol
I hate how the main page is just to same videos reapeted over and over listed under different subjects.
The YouTube algorithm really sucks these days. You click on one video and that’s all it recommends to you until you break out of it by manually searching for something else.
May I present Steamed Hams but it’s a Critically Acclaimed Feature Film
Also check out Tasting History with Max Miller, that one’s a no brainer
Seconded on Tasting History. Plus if your new, theres a whole backlog to work through. I also enjoy Barry Lewis for mealtime vids. He does a lot of testing of products and viral video recipes.
yall eat with a youtube video playing instead of just staring into the void??
Dude if my brain doesn’t have input it start a pros and cons list for self termination.
Check out this brave guy, just raw dogging the dark thoughts
Which reminds me OP, Joel Haver is another good one
What if I make eye contact with what dwells beyond?
Nobody has ever done that before. You would be the first. Let us know what happens.
I made eye contact got nervous and looked away. That entity is probably making fun of me.
Time to throw on a podcast and turn on a visualizer I guess lol
Search for old early 20th century TV shows and movies. You’ll find jillions of channels with an infinite amount of shows to watch.
The only youtube videos worth watching now are comedy, DIY/tech instruction, and similar documentary type content. It’s mostly fake BREAKING NEWS, speculation about SECRET stuff we were LIED TO about, and revelations of BANNED things. Apparently every classic movie had a BANNED ending that was BANNED.
By the time I found something I’m already done and started planning tomorrow’s meal.
Only shit I watch now is Internet Comment Etiquette and history podcasts.
This is honestly a sad truth. :( It now takes so long to find a good one the food would go cold.
Megathread, Star Trek. It’s reliable. Barring that, there’s always Walter Bishop or Scully & Mulder. V, the original series, for some of the worst acting ever televised.
If I’m going to watch scripted I’m going to watch a story. Even the hobby vids are scripted, repetitive, selling crap. Very little of it feels authentic. Neither the algorithm nor the search fxn lets you search for rejected vids or vids with <500 views. It’s ridiculous.
At least V was entertaining and funny. I just tried to watch Manifest. That actually is the worst acting ever, and it’s not even compelling or funny. It’s like the worst commercial-level acting. At least V shows you how to plan an insurgency against an invading alien force.
Dark Shadows is my Number 1 on worst. V is in the top 5, but yes, very entertaining. Bad acting should be entertaining.
YT is getting annoying. And there’s bot vids now.
I will to this day not watch V. It scared the DICK out of me when I was a kid and now I am a burly old falsetto speaking husk of a man minus a dick and still can’t finish the show.
Yes. My parents forbid it after I had a nightmare about the skin being ripped off of a face. Nothing adulthood won’t cure. It’s actually pretty great in a 3 heads kind of way, rodents and all.
The guinea pig scene. ohmigod!
For me it was that one scene in a cave where I think there was an alien hatching or something. It was so fucking visceral, HARD John Carpenter vibes from those special effects. Mind you I was 8 at the time.
The Thing. Classic. Must see.
I keep steering this around. Is this a real thing? I have zero problems at all and, in fact, can’t even keep up with all the videos i want to watch.
depends on what you want to watch.
i agree with it. because I like high quality original content, and not a lot of that is produced on youtube. most channels i watch and enjoy only produce one video a week, or less. the stuff that produces daily videos, by contrast, is usually pretty schlocky with a ton of boring repetitive content repackaged for maximum engagement.
if you want a video of someone’s podcast full of lazy hot takes, sure you will never be disappointed. if you like stuff that is more analytical and synthetic and thoughtful, you are going run out really fast.
at this point I’m subscribed to over 4000 YouTube channels that I have all found very interesting so finding content is never a problem for me
cool.
Not sure why you’re trying to make a subtle dig at whatever content i like to watch, but that’s rude.
Skill issue
Hey if you like the human made equivalent to slop we won’t stop you.
But it’s still slop. Just be honest about it.
Yes, please jump onto shitting on me for someone elses false assumptions lmao
Show us your true colors!
it’s not about you.
but it’s funny you think it is.
It came across that way before you edited your comment. You didn’t have to include anything about what other people watch at all but it’s clear you need to let other people know that you’re better than them.
I’m sorry I hurt your feelings for enjoying something you don’t enjoy. Must be difficult to go through life taking offense to other people’s preferences not matching yours.
Keep wasting your time and energy replying. I’m off work tonight!
I love that you plainly illustrate that you don’t even know what the problem here is. Are you actually that clueless?
Yeah the problem is you are offended someone else is different than you and has different preferences and usage patterns.
It’s ok. You’re a normal lemmy user. If you were a mod I’m sure you ban me for my ‘problematic’ comments.
