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> YouTube that isn't just filled with conservative conspiracy stuff I often see people complaining about this; but it's just not something I ever experience my

> YouTube that isn't just filled with conservative conspiracy stuff I often see people complaining about this; but it's just not something I ever experience myself (provided I'm using my account, of course). While I do cultivate my YouTube recommendations using the "Do not recommend again" menu item, I think I've only needed to click that a few times a year - plus most of the videos I watch are from video producers I'm subscribed to (mostly retrotech, sci/tech/edu youtubers and archive film accounts; I do subscribe to a bunch of defence-economics and political youtubers but only because they don't engage in theatrics: it's all very bookish and academic, so that also helps keep the bad content away. ...so if you're seeing extremist and/or conspiratorial content, may I ask if you're clicking the "Do not recommend" menu option (not just the Dislike button) - and have you built a Subscriptions list of consistently non-extremist content? I imagine those are the 2 main things that informs YouTube's recommendation algo.

furyofantares 1y ago
You've misunderstood, they're saying all the youtube alternatives are like that, not that youtube is.
- alex1138 1y ago
  Here's the kind of thing Youtube censors https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html I wish it were all "discredited". It isn't. It would arguably be wrong to censor things that were actually that
- samplatt 1y ago
  What are some youtube alternatives? YT has so much history and is so pervasive that I hadn't even considered there WERE alternatives. Or are they all similar to the rumble.com link below, standard 2020's coded propaganda and clickbait bullshit? edit: Nevermind, looks like they ARE mostly conservative conspiracy crap. Carry on. :-(
  - DaiPlusPlus 1y ago
    If my youtube subs' sponsored segments are anything to go by: Nebula, CuriosityStream, and Magellan. ...though the the problem with creating _good_ content on YouTube that still gets watched by millions over a decade after it was originally posted (looking at you, Jay Foreman) is your sponsored segments and this-month-only coupon codes will age poorly.
  - carlosjobim 1y ago
    Netflix is an alternative, or cable TV.
    - tombert 1y ago
      Not quite equivalent really. Part of the whole appeal of YouTube is user-generated content. It's fun to see stuff that people have made that wouldn't realistically make it onto TV.
      - carlosjobim 1y ago
        Then there is no alternative to any product or service in the world, because offerings are never identical.
        tombert 1y ago
        I'm saying what you're suggesting isn't even analogous; the main appeal of YouTube is user generated content. Netflix and cable TV are competitors in the sense that they are competing for your time, but so are video games and blu-rays and books. Something like Bitchute or Rumble or Odyssey are more analogous to YouTube specifically because they're designed around user generated content. This is not a pedantic detail; the appeal of YouTube is the sort of "infiniteness" of it; there's millions upon millions of videos on the site and a lot of them are appealing to specific niches and subniches. With curated content like Netflix or cable TV, you cannot have nearly the diversity of content.
  - balexr 1y ago
tombert 1y ago
Sorry, bad wording on my end. YouTube isn’t filled with conservative extremist content, and my recommendations aren’t either. I am saying that the “alternatives” to YouTube (e.g. Rumble, Bitchute) are overwhelmingly filled with conservative conspiracy crap; basically stuff that isn’t allowed on YouTube.
- DaiPlusPlus 1y ago
  Cheerfully withdrawn :)

furyofantares 1y ago

You've misunderstood, they're saying all the youtube alternatives are like that, not that youtube is.

alex1138 1y ago
Here's the kind of thing Youtube censors https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html https://rumble.com/vt62y6-covid-19-a-second-opinion.html I wish it were all "discredited". It isn't. It would arguably be wrong to censor things that were actually that
samplatt 1y ago
What are some youtube alternatives? YT has so much history and is so pervasive that I hadn't even considered there WERE alternatives. Or are they all similar to the rumble.com link below, standard 2020's coded propaganda and clickbait bullshit? edit: Nevermind, looks like they ARE mostly conservative conspiracy crap. Carry on. :-(
- DaiPlusPlus 1y ago
  If my youtube subs' sponsored segments are anything to go by: Nebula, CuriosityStream, and Magellan. ...though the the problem with creating _good_ content on YouTube that still gets watched by millions over a decade after it was originally posted (looking at you, Jay Foreman) is your sponsored segments and this-month-only coupon codes will age poorly.
- carlosjobim 1y ago
  Netflix is an alternative, or cable TV.
  - tombert 1y ago
    Not quite equivalent really. Part of the whole appeal of YouTube is user-generated content. It's fun to see stuff that people have made that wouldn't realistically make it onto TV.
    - carlosjobim 1y ago
      Then there is no alternative to any product or service in the world, because offerings are never identical.
      - tombert 1y ago
        I'm saying what you're suggesting isn't even analogous; the main appeal of YouTube is user generated content. Netflix and cable TV are competitors in the sense that they are competing for your time, but so are video games and blu-rays and books. Something like Bitchute or Rumble or Odyssey are more analogous to YouTube specifically because they're designed around user generated content. This is not a pedantic detail; the appeal of YouTube is the sort of "infiniteness" of it; there's millions upon millions of videos on the site and a lot of them are appealing to specific niches and subniches. With curated content like Netflix or cable TV, you cannot have nearly the diversity of content.
- balexr 1y ago

tombert 1y ago

Sorry, bad wording on my end. YouTube isn’t filled with conservative extremist content, and my recommendations aren’t either. I am saying that the “alternatives” to YouTube (e.g. Rumble, Bitchute) are overwhelmingly filled with conservative conspiracy crap; basically stuff that isn’t allowed on YouTube.

DaiPlusPlus 1y ago
Cheerfully withdrawn :)