I know there was quite a bit of controversy surrounding YouTube’s recommendation algorithms, but I can’t seem to find a better alternative. What are the ways y’all find videos that are of interest?

I know we could use RSS and subscribe to our desired channels and get a better experience than YT’s own subscription system, but what about channel/video discovery, those that you’ve never seen before? Is there a better way to find a video that might be interesting to you without kneeling before the almighty algorithm? Half of the recommended page on YT seems irrelevant to me, but I can’t seem to find a better alternative.

  • @[email protected]
    2•10 months ago

    I use FreeTube on desktop to follow my favourite YouTube channels, and I’ve found the related videos section to be quite good in occasionally suggesting videos from channels I’m unfamiliar with. I also have a Nebula subscription, so I find content creators from there as well.

    I do admit that sometimes I’ll login to my old YouTube account and check what their algorithm is suggesting. I just copy/paste the URLs into FreeTube.