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[–] 34 points 1 week ago (14 children)

YouTube is my other social media and it's getting stale quickly

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  • [–] 33 points 1 week ago (7 children)

    I turned YouTube history off and just watch videos through “my subscriptions”

    For me it’s a game changer

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  • [–] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    I basically did the same thing but have a YouTube downloader that puts them on my Plex server. So I can watch a show then like a YouTube video and call it a night

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I wanted to set that up to for a while. But I don't have a home server, just a seedbox and it's limited in what I can do. What software are you using?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I'm using pinchflat on it. The trickiest part was just the naming scheme in pinchflat for the videos and the library configuration on plex so it shows them correctly.

    Also I got blocked by YouTube a few times because I would pause it for a while then start it up and it would download way too many so they would block me for like a month

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I degoogled, so I don't login.

    Youtube Unhook and SponsorBlock Extensions in Firefox

    "Hide YouTube related videos, comments, video suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending tab, and other distractions.

    A browser extension to eliminate distractions on YouTube, including the recommended sidebar, endscreen video suggestions, user comments, homepage related videos feed, trending tab, turn off autoplay or annotations, and more. Toggle the options through the popup to customize your own YouTube experience!"

    I go to youtube website and its just a blank page with a sidebar and a searchbar. My subscriptions are just bookmarked pages of people I follow, or I subscribe through Grayjay.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    I do something similar, not as many extensions and very incomplete bookmarks. Most of the time I just go through a list in my head, so sometimes I remember a channel I haven't checked in a while and then have enough videos to watch for a week.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    YouTube is still amazing, you just have to ignore the algorithm, which is easy enough through subscriptions

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  • I was trying to find background music the other day while I did chores. Unless you know a specifc channel, there's a good chance your search takes you to Aimusic instead of music.


    I've been known for having strong opinions from time to time

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (1 child)

    Why ignore the algorithm? Some of my favorite creators I found through the algorithm (suggested videos, homepage, etc). I just ignore the ones you don't like, you'll see less and less of them.

    Example: A few weeks ago it tried to show me videos of Charlie Kirk, I marked them as boring and after 3 attempts it got the message and I haven't seen one since.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago

    You're right about this, but getting it right can take some work. YouTube makes recommendations based on your watch history and input, so you have to go in and remove videos from your history you don't want to influence what you see. But a big problem IMO is that the algorithm recommends things only based on what you've watched recently, and not based on your subscriptions

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