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YouTube desperately need user chosen content preferences. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by oldfemboy@lemmy.ml to c/youtube@lemmy.ml

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I am tired of getting recommendations mostly made either of corporate giants AND videos with sub 100 views from channels I haven't ever seen on topics I've never touched. I want broaders topics, but I get recommended exactly what I don't want to see: startup creators and huge entities "creators". I want medium sized ones. The ones where they're not just pumping content out for profit and/or propaganda, but have the deep polish. I get everything I don't. Users should be able to opt into what size of a creator they want to see. I bet there are people who may wish to only see tiny creators or maybe only corporate, or even all. But the current system makes it so I don't find stuff I want to see. :/

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[–] schwim@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago

I just use Freetube to follow my subs. I would never trust a company like Google to show me pushed content.

[–] Euphorazine@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That's interesting, because YouTube recently hit me a channel named "Scary Interesting" where he just tells stories about diving and caving accidents. I'm not sure where or how it got that, but after the first one I saw, I binged a bunch of it

I just checked and he does have 1m subs, so it's not small, but it's not corporate.

Another seemingly random recommendation was Gabi Belle. She does video essays too and they hooked me in with her talking about how ridiculous Kitchen Nightmares as a show is. Gabi has a great humor.

If I had to classify my YouTube recommendations, is in the first two rows I'm guaranteed to have like 25-35% of them be at least someone I'm subscribed to. The next 70% are related to videos I've watched recently. Sometimes it feels like one video in there occasionally is a "moon shot". That's where scary interesting or Gabi Belle squeezed in. Sometimes it's a generic trending video, sometimes it's a creator I haven't watched in a long time just posting something new.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

Hate to break it to you, but those cave diving accident channels are 100% a corporate power play. They all sprung up at the same time.

[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 0 points 5 months ago

Some of the bigger creators got there by putting out consistent quality stuff. Anything in particular you're after?