• ikidd@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    My average has gone to hell since I set up my own Piped instance. Now I live on the backs of those that endure Youtube still.

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      7 months ago

      How does Piped work? It just downloads all of YouTube (lol), or you tell it to archive certain channels/subscriptions kinda like Sonarr and them?

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        7 months ago

        It just runs as a proxy front end and fetches the videos as you use them. You have to set up your channel subscriptions and then if you go to your Feed, it just shows the channels, and nothing else. No algorithm spamming up your feed. No ads, uses Sponsorblock

        It’s the way Youtube should have been. There’s a bunch of public ones, https://piped.video is the one run by it’s creator. Make an account and play around before you decide if you want to run your own instance.

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          7 months ago

          I see, interesting. Thank you for explaining!

          I feel like I must be one in a million, because I actually think the algorithm is being pretty good to me. It’s giving me so many interesting new suggestions and my Watch List keeps building up to where I will never have time to catch up and I just keep adding more and more.

          I guess I’ve just been very disciplined in watching videos that are interesting to me, and not allowing anyone to watch their shit on my account. If they do, I remove that history.

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            7 months ago

            I think a lot of people who complain about the algorithm don’t actually have that many subscriptions set up. So there isn’t really much of a guide for the algorithm on what to show people. I never get sports videos recommended or conspiracy theory videos because I never watched that kind of thing.

            My subscriptions are all science channels, and people building their own computers. The algorithm knows what stuff to recommend me and what not to because I’ve told it.

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              7 months ago

              That might be it actually. I probably have hundreds of subscriptions. I also make sure to like and dislike stuff to let it know what’s up. 🙂👍

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          7 months ago

          So it’s the same as just going to the subscriptions tab? I’m just a bit confused about what the difference here is.

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      7 months ago

      If you watch smaller channels, you’ll find something to map. Even though the video is several days old, you’re the first sponsor block user watching it.

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      7 months ago

      I did once, and during my submission process someone else submitted it first. I do know how to create them now though! I’ll be ready for next time.

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      7 months ago

      Right?! Yesterday GamersNexus published a new video 3 minutes before I watched it. It only had a couple dozen views at that point, but somehow somebody had already mapped it!

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    7 months ago

    Imagine being the one creating the segment for a Mr Beast video. Instantly saved some years.

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    7 months ago

    Check out DeArrow. Made by same person to crowd source non-click bait titles and thumbnails (using a screen shot from the video).

    “You won’t belive this new gadget can do this” -> “review of (product name)”

    “I ate 100 hotdogs in a day!” -> “Mr. Beast knock-off #32 wonders the streets and eats 3 hotdogs at a few street shops.”

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    7 months ago

    Well now have a new service to use!

    I’m so tired of Nordvpn and raid.

    Like if you’re playing an indie game that sponsored the video, that is sick.

    I in no way wanna hear about man scaped while watching a Pokémon video.

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    7 months ago

    Now we just need people to stop abusing the “highlight/get to the point” option.

    Its great for “listen to my whole life story before I tell you how to fix this super obscure computer problem”

    Not so great for “watch me build this cool table” skips to the final result.

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      7 months ago

      You know you can configure to not autoskip those segments, right? You can always skip manually, if it’s that kind of video.