In the past few days, it’s recommended:
- Some guy saying vegan diets don’t work (news to me, considering I’ve been on one for years)
- A different guy complaining about PETA’s new game
- A woman saying women in modern games are too ugly
- The same woman saying women don’t really want to be in charge of anything
- Some bullshit from ShoeOnHead
- Paul Joseph Watson
Not sure where this all came from. I’d actually enjoyed a very long, pleasant streak where it wasn’t recommending me any of this trash. Now they’re coming out of the woodwork. Every time I see one of these videos I click the “don’t recommend this” button, but there are always more.
I’ve been using Freetube for a while now and i cannot recommend it enough. It doesn’t push you any content aside from the creators you’ve subscribed to, It looks clean and has great theme customization, its ad-free and of course its FOSS.
Like invidious, Freetube won’t use your data to recommend you an infinite stream of curated content for you to consume. I’ve found myself watching a video and just being satisfied there, with one video. I couldn’t handle that before. Youtube’s clever algorithm would never let me watch just one video if I had the time for 2 or 3 or 20. And having a subscriber only feed gave me total control over how much reactionary content I see. Its a complete 180 from the standard youtube experience.