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Youtube has a whole section with all the people you follow. https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions all the videos

by MikusR 4y ago

Youtube has a whole section with all the people you follow. https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions all the videos are in reverse chronological order. Twitter has a button with stars where you can select to show only the tweets of people you follow in reverse chronological order. Called Latest Tweets.

anoonmoose 4y ago
I got super excited for that YouTube functionality, then I clicked the link and realized that either I follow way too many people for this to be useful, or the people I follow are producing way more content than I can handle. I guess maybe if I "un-ring" the bell for a few of the bigger channels this could be useful...
- twiceaday 4y ago
  People harp on social media algorithms but this right here is the actual problem. Your stated preferences, to see and be notified of all those videos, run contrary to your revealed preferences. And services catering to the former will lose to services catering to the latter. By harboring these mismatches we train these systems to ignore what we say we want or risk losing profits and market share.
  - praestigiare 4y ago
    The problem is that engagement is a poor proxy for preference.
- IshKebab 4y ago
  Yeah I did the same. I find the best way to use YouTube with a lot of subscriptions is just to click the subscriptions list and it shows you who has a new video and you can decide what you're in the mood for based on the channel.
- lizknope 4y ago
  Every morning I to go youtube and check my subscriptions for new videos. I have zero bell notifications because I just find it really annoying. I work from home most days so I play the interesting new videos that day from my subscriptions and really don't bother with anything else.
- csours 4y ago
  It's painful, but I have pruned my subscription list of people who upload often but I rarely watch. At this point my YouTube subscription list is channels where I open the video more than 50% of the time. I don't know if that's "fair" or not, but it's how I keep the subscription page useful.
csours 4y ago
The YouTube subscriptions page is my shortcut to YouTube.
Ensorceled 4y ago
Stop blaming users for problems introduced by massive tech companies. Yes, I know how to find my subscriptions, that's how I know the channels I like are dying; they are posting "my channel is dying videos" and only a subset of their users are finding them.
- lovehashbrowns 4y ago
  Your other comment said: > The content creators I've subscribed to are now rarely in my feed which is full of "recommended for you" videos and movies for rent. The solution is to go to your subscription feed. This also wasn't a few months ago. This changed many years ago. I remember hating having to put the subscriptions page in my list of URLs because it was harder to go there. Previously there was a section of the YT home page for your latest subscription uploads, I think? I don't remember exactly. You also need to actively watch content from your subscribed channels in order to get their videos recommended to you. I have a ton of channels I'm subscribed to but not all of them show up in my recommendations because I don't watch their content enough. I feel that's actually better because there are channels I'm subscribed to that I don't watch all of their content, e.g. conference channels, but I do want to occasionally see if they uploaded anything I want to watch. Channels I actively watch frequently have their newest uploads pop up in my recommendations almost immediately.
  - Ensorceled 4y ago
    > Your other comment said: >> The content creators I've subscribed to are now rarely in my feed which is full of "recommended for you" videos and movies for rent. It is, and I presume so is everyone's. I wasn't asking for help, I was explaining a bunch of problems I'm seeing. > This also wasn't a few months ago. No, something seriously changed a few months ago. 5 different channels are all suddenly have the same problem where their views are all down to 50% or less without explanation.
- NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
  If you're looking to find more interesting content on YouTube you might want to check this out: https://channelgalaxy.com/id%3DUCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg/ https://channelgalaxy.com/id%3DUCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg/ They have lists of channels by similarity. That one is the list for the Y Combinator channel. You can look up a different channel in the search bar on top of the page. I've definitely found a bunch of new channels through it, like Yannic Kilcher and pretty much the whole AI section of YouTube. Despite watching stuff like Robert Miles and Lex Fridman YouTube never showed me the depth of the AI section on its own. After I found it the YouTube algorithm started showing me videos in the new areas I was discovering which brought even more content.
grishka 4y ago
Wait, people use something else to see the videos from their subscribed channels? I'm genuinely curious.
- MikusR 4y ago
  There is a reason TikTok got popular and RSS died. People really like their endless semirandom entertainment

by MikusR 4y ago

anoonmoose 4y ago

I got super excited for that YouTube functionality, then I clicked the link and realized that either I follow way too many people for this to be useful, or the people I follow are producing way more content than I can handle. I guess maybe if I "un-ring" the bell for a few of the bigger channels this could be useful...

twiceaday 4y ago
People harp on social media algorithms but this right here is the actual problem. Your stated preferences, to see and be notified of all those videos, run contrary to your revealed preferences. And services catering to the former will lose to services catering to the latter. By harboring these mismatches we train these systems to ignore what we say we want or risk losing profits and market share.
- praestigiare 4y ago
  The problem is that engagement is a poor proxy for preference.
IshKebab 4y ago
Yeah I did the same. I find the best way to use YouTube with a lot of subscriptions is just to click the subscriptions list and it shows you who has a new video and you can decide what you're in the mood for based on the channel.
lizknope 4y ago
Every morning I to go youtube and check my subscriptions for new videos. I have zero bell notifications because I just find it really annoying. I work from home most days so I play the interesting new videos that day from my subscriptions and really don't bother with anything else.
csours 4y ago
It's painful, but I have pruned my subscription list of people who upload often but I rarely watch. At this point my YouTube subscription list is channels where I open the video more than 50% of the time. I don't know if that's "fair" or not, but it's how I keep the subscription page useful.

csours 4y ago

The YouTube subscriptions page is my shortcut to YouTube.

Ensorceled 4y ago

Stop blaming users for problems introduced by massive tech companies. Yes, I know how to find my subscriptions, that's how I know the channels I like are dying; they are posting "my channel is dying videos" and only a subset of their users are finding them.

lovehashbrowns 4y ago
Your other comment said: > The content creators I've subscribed to are now rarely in my feed which is full of "recommended for you" videos and movies for rent. The solution is to go to your subscription feed. This also wasn't a few months ago. This changed many years ago. I remember hating having to put the subscriptions page in my list of URLs because it was harder to go there. Previously there was a section of the YT home page for your latest subscription uploads, I think? I don't remember exactly. You also need to actively watch content from your subscribed channels in order to get their videos recommended to you. I have a ton of channels I'm subscribed to but not all of them show up in my recommendations because I don't watch their content enough. I feel that's actually better because there are channels I'm subscribed to that I don't watch all of their content, e.g. conference channels, but I do want to occasionally see if they uploaded anything I want to watch. Channels I actively watch frequently have their newest uploads pop up in my recommendations almost immediately.
- Ensorceled 4y ago
  > Your other comment said: >> The content creators I've subscribed to are now rarely in my feed which is full of "recommended for you" videos and movies for rent. It is, and I presume so is everyone's. I wasn't asking for help, I was explaining a bunch of problems I'm seeing. > This also wasn't a few months ago. No, something seriously changed a few months ago. 5 different channels are all suddenly have the same problem where their views are all down to 50% or less without explanation.
NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
If you're looking to find more interesting content on YouTube you might want to check this out: https://channelgalaxy.com/id%3DUCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg/ https://channelgalaxy.com/id%3DUCcefcZRL2oaA_uBNeo5UOWg/ They have lists of channels by similarity. That one is the list for the Y Combinator channel. You can look up a different channel in the search bar on top of the page. I've definitely found a bunch of new channels through it, like Yannic Kilcher and pretty much the whole AI section of YouTube. Despite watching stuff like Robert Miles and Lex Fridman YouTube never showed me the depth of the AI section on its own. After I found it the YouTube algorithm started showing me videos in the new areas I was discovering which brought even more content.

grishka 4y ago

Wait, people use something else to see the videos from their subscribed channels? I'm genuinely curious.

MikusR 4y ago
There is a reason TikTok got popular and RSS died. People really like their endless semirandom entertainment