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YouTube is easily the best “social network” in terms of having high-quality content with minimal manipulation. And I definitely consider it my main form of medi
by keiferski 10mo ago
YouTube is easily the best “social network” in terms of having high-quality content with minimal manipulation. And I definitely consider it my main form of media consumption.
You just have to curate your feed and add stuff to playlists, not watch whatever is on the logged-out default home page.
- lukan 10mo agoWhat? You have to do a lot of curation and fighting the service itself (hiding shorts) to get to a bearable level. And I did not spend hours clicking things I don't like. I mostly just watch movies/clips I want, but my recommendations are full of clickbait manipulative garbage. So yes, one can find jewels in it - but only if digging through the garbage first.
- keiferski 10mo agoI watch a ton of great content by people that I subscribe to. It's not difficult or complicated to get there. Not sure what else to say.
- lukan 10mo agoBut you don't agree it took a lot of effort to hide the garbage?
- keiferski 10mo agoNot really, if anything, there is too much stuff I want to watch that is suggested to me. I suppose if you created an account today you'd be fed a lot of garbage, but I've been watching YouTube often for at least a couple years.
- RGamma 10mo agoIs watching videos considered a social activity now? The word "social" truly seems to have been tortured to death.