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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.

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KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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

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- jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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- jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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.
  
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  - pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah, that makes sense on how that would be hard. I only have 20 and then post weeklyish.
    
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I turned off recommendations so my youtube homepage is blank but I always get notifications from channels I’m subscribed to

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ghostrider2112@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I ran into a problem when they stopped recommending videos if you don’t allow them to save your search/viewing history. When I realized the extreme amount of data that this provides them, to the extent that their algorithms can likely identify what mental health issues people may not even be aware of themselves, I tried to give them as little detail as I could.

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- SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  No watch history plus subscriptions is the way to go.
  
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  - ghostrider2112@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    For sure! Actually, i’ve been spending more and more time just watching old videos at archive.org. Old government videos, old reel to reel educational films, and on and on…
    
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