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Zephorah@discuss.online 1 week ago
The search function is terrible. No matter how you filter it, even if the pseudo functional filters work it’s just the most subscribed to garbage I’ve repeatedly tried not to see on the home page. There’s no way to permanently block the garbage I never want to see. It’s an endless repeat loop of sameness. The thumbnails are the worst. Hobby channels are thus dead, it’s the same 50 videos I keep saying “not interested” to instead of anything fresh or new.
I go there for Josh Johnson and a couple others, there’s no way to find decent content creators any more in that dumpster fire.
Same for me, I love taking peeks into rabbit holes without going too deep and for years YouTube was perfect for that. Get a glance of a community and move on while sometimes leaving a subscription for outstanding creators. Now it forces me down into small bubbles and I hate it.
The search function also became useless outside of music since almost everyone uses click bait titles.
neblem@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You can always just subscribe to your favorite creators via RSS instead of relying on their subscription tools. It does kill some discovery potential but its not like you still don’t get recommendations when going to the video.
Zephorah@discuss.online 1 week ago
It’s literally all the same vids. Or things I already watched 5 years ago.