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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too (joeyehand.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Blogger discovers this cool thing called "RSS".

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Protip: Youtube channels have RSS feeds, they're just buried in the source of the page. Ctrl-U and then Ctrl-F title="RSS"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I guess to get actual value from these videos you will still need to visit youtube.com though, in the end giving them valuable data to analyze.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can play YouTube videos in VLC player

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If I try to watch over a tor exit node (using tor anonymization technology). It shows me this message. They really want to know my IP-Address?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe try one of the downloaders

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I can recommend yt-dlp

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but the goal here is to escape the algorithm deciding what you consume

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

good point, organic sharing is better than the addictive algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can also just drop the youtube channel link (ex. https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips ) as well into most readers and it'll sort it out for you, so you don't even have to go digging.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I wrote my own rss reader for youtubue, so it does this digging for me when I paste in a channel link :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's in order if you only use the subscriptions tab too

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A couple weeks ago I did a poll and it turns out almost 25% of the people who "watch YT daily or almost daily" don't know about the subscriptions tab.

It's so weird, but explains so many people claiming to not see new uploads. They only use the home page and never the actual subscriptions

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, whenever I see the home page videos my soul dies a little. Couldn't handle that regularly

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

The home page is fine for me, it's dialed pretty well into my tastes. I always click the don't reccommend channel or video if I don't like a recommendation.

The Trending tab, on the other hand... Yikes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

TIL. Gonna have to test this out my FreshRSS feed. Ty 🥰