Mastodon and other fedi services mentioned

  • Jonathan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    24 hours ago

    Great video, thanks for posting! This guy articulated a lot of thoughts about algorithmic recommendations that I’ve never been quite able to form into coherent thoughts myself. I definitely understand why I decided to go all in with the fediverse or social web half a decade ago or so now.

    • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Yeah what of the things that led me to using YouTube logged out was a small thing like getting bunch of video game spoilers if I viewed some videos of a game I was interested in or needed a walk through or tip on.

      • Jagget@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        I don’t use YouTube “main” page. Only watch it from “subscriptions” page and uBlock’ed the recommendation column completely. This way I only see videos I want to watch.

        • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Another reason I prefer stuff like newpipe and its forks and freetube on desktop is to be able to access my subscription feed with a local one to reduce YouTube account use as much as possible.

  • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    18 hours ago

    For YouTube on android you can also use grayjay or revanced to set subscriptions as your home page!

    (This is about a section in the video, not just a random non-sequitur 😅)

      • stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
        5·
        16 hours ago

        I like the fork pipepipe since it has sponsorblock and also let’s you use a YouTube account only for accessing age restricted videos, since YouTube disabled that for people without accounts.

      • Cris@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        17 hours ago

        Grayjay can work that way (optionally) too. Its pretty cool there are now a number of great ways to interact with YouTube that give users more agency! 😊

        Invidious is also a thing, though I haven’t used it much