In the past few days, it’s recommended:
- Some guy saying vegan diets don’t work (news to me, considering I’ve been on one for years)
- A different guy complaining about PETA’s new game
- A woman saying women in modern games are too ugly
- The same woman saying women don’t really want to be in charge of anything
- Some bullshit from ShoeOnHead
- Paul Joseph Watson
Not sure where this all came from. I’d actually enjoyed a very long, pleasant streak where it wasn’t recommending me any of this trash. Now they’re coming out of the woodwork. Every time I see one of these videos I click the “don’t recommend this” button, but there are always more.
I’ve been using Freetube for a while now and i cannot recommend it enough. It doesn’t push you any content aside from the creators you’ve subscribed to, It looks clean and has great theme customization, its ad-free and of course its FOSS.
Like invidious, Freetube won’t use your data to recommend you an infinite stream of curated content for you to consume. I’ve found myself watching a video and just being satisfied there, with one video. I couldn’t handle that before. Youtube’s clever algorithm would never let me watch just one video if I had the time for 2 or 3 or 20. And having a subscriber only feed gave me total control over how much reactionary content I see. Its a complete 180 from the standard youtube experience.
The first one is true though, I tried an all-vegan diet once, next thing I know cops are knocking on my door, accusing me of crazy things like “cannibalism.” It’s just too much effort to keep up that lifestyle.
Good idea to check the channels before you click most recommends if you’re not sure about the video being spoonfed to you by the algorithm. I have rss set up on pc to just grab from channels I watch instead
I almost never watch YouTube, I primarily use Newpipe or Invidious (when possible, almost always rate-limited it seems) and YT basically only recommends me Hasan Piker videos
I’ve had to be pretty aggressive in clicking the “don’t recommend” button lately, I’ve been watching a lot of cooking videos in the last month or so and it seems that that’s enough to start my recommendations down the generic food video -> BIG MANLY ALL-MEAT DIET -> woke politics destroyed the West pipeline. I just want to watch chinese vegetable cooking videos and magic the gathering streamers, please stop filling my feed with shorts of Joe Rogan talking about why steak is the only way to prevent the gay agenda from winning.
