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At some point I was really disillusioned by YouTube and I tried really hard to curate a list of interested channels. But YouTube fought extremely hard against users interests and completely broke YouTube. I have several subscriptions that get buried and forgotten because YouTube refuses to recommend them to me.
The solution would be simple, an inbox of videos, rss style. But that’s not in YouTube’s interest.
I bookmark the channels I like and then go through one by one to check if they have something new, old school style. It’s kind of interesting that way because it feels more personal. It’s more like choosing something to watch from netflix from your saved list or similar to those.
Sure, but I have accumulated far too many over the years to do this… Some channels post a video per year, others 5 per week.
Yeah, that makes sense on how that would be hard. I only have 20 and then post weeklyish.
If you watch the video, you’ll know that this exists and is called the subscriptions feed.
Also, youtube channels actually have RSS feeds you can put into your reader of choice if you don’t want to browse the main page, look it up
My subscriptions feed is not useful because just because I’m subscribed, doesn’t mean I want to watch all videos from that channel. But you can just dismiss new videos like in n email inbox.
I’ve been thinking for a long time to get a list of all rss feeds of my subscriptions but I never got around to do that. Wish there was a tool to do that for me 🥹
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No watch history plus subscriptions is the way to go.
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I turned off watch history which disables recommendations so my youtube homepage is blank but I always get notifications from channels I’m subscribed to
Yup, before computer algorithms it was advertising and suveys promoting what they wanted to sell and finding out how effective it was. The algorithm is a faster and more efficent version of that process, which does make it even easier for a single person to abuse. Honestly the main problem is that the social media sites are basically a monopoly under meta at this point since it keeps buying up competitors.
The Century of the Self by Adam Curtis
The business and political worlds use psychological techniques to read, create and fulfill the desires of the public, and to make their products and speeches as pleasing as possible to consumers and voters. Curtis questions the intentions and origins of this relatively new approach to engaging the public.
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