The best maps app I've used so far has been HereWeGo.

Best keyboard so far is HeliKeyboard.

Notes App is: Obsidian (Also Canadian)

Best browser: Even just Firefox is a huge step in the right direction.

Youtube music alternative could just be Spotify, it's Swedish.

As if those reviews did shit before.

You start with shorts and start scrolling for a few minutes and it will populate your feed after that. Unless things changed YouTube shorts just starts going on its own.

Otherwise when you type in something it's kind of going to influence your feed. You can also influence the feed by stopping and viewing a certain short video over a different one. So I don't know to control for that other than using a ardunio with motors and a stylus on a phone. Which is too much effort to care.

I tried but the only thing showing in the feed is "try searching to get started". Problem is that I don't know what the fuck I want to search for, and even on the rare chance that I do know what I want to see, I don't bother with YouTube's search because it never returns relevant results!

Let's be real, these days a "new YouTube user" is a child who has no idea that alternatives exist or why they would even want to use them in the first place.

No wonder I don't see it then, all my shorts are exclusively Fallout, Warhammer, and Elder Scrolls themed shitposts.

Even videos with people in them are becoming ai slop. So I sympathies with her on not knowing.

One of the artists I watch meat canyon has writers that makes scripts (on his second channel that focuses on talking about random topics) and one of them was using Ai to write the script for them.

I still watch that person it's not the biggest deal to me. Theres bigger fish to fry, and we are all human. Worlds not black and white. What's a bigger deal to me is I'll often watch history videos to fall asleep to, and its sooooo hard to find a channel that's not just 100% ai generated from like start to finish. Including pictures. Its like history is getting rewritten from this foggy/fuzzy inaccurate lenses. Kids in the future are going to see a ai generated image of 1800's new York where a man is using a tablet, and think its true.

Just use clients like newpipe or pipetube, etc. You only see what you subscribe to.

Its was actually kind of depressing when I first switched, there was a level of "life" that having an algorithm felt like it brought.

But I got used to not having it and my brain kind of leveled out. Now when I see someone else's YouTube home page I'm disgusted.

Open up a new private tab and give it ago. Also start with YouTube shorts.

Feddit.uk bans ai slop.

Agree here. I also watch a lot of cooking videos and the Ai nonnas need to quit.

Most AI slop is in youtube shorts, not videos. And it's getting hard to spot.

I love DeArrow

Same here. And half of those old videos I know for a fact I've seen, and probably liked despite it not saying I liked it.

I'm in that loop as well. I get very few slop recommedations but lots of stuff from 10 or more years ago mixed in with new videos.

HELL YEAH 😁 ty! I need stuff for when there's lulls in my subscriptions. And if any of them come back, I guess we'll both get to find out

Oh god damn, buckle up

https://www.youtube.com/@twoswap - awesome math guy

https://www.youtube.com/@alnwlsn - electronics, computers, maker stuff

https://www.youtube.com/@ancientjames - guy builds novel video displays from scratch

https://www.youtube.com/@AppliedScience - flat out smartest guy on he internet

https://www.youtube.com/@Attoparsec - hacky/computery/makey guy

https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisStaecker - math instrument historian, also funny af

https://www.youtube.com/@DiffractionLimited - Build a um scale 3d printer

https://www.youtube.com/@dipdoting - build computer from relays

https://www.youtube.com/@YeanyScience - retired science teacher teaches you science

https://www.youtube.com/@HuygensOptics - turns out you don't know anything about optics, neither do i

https://www.youtube.com/@illinoisenergyprof6878 - learn about atomic power

https://www.youtube.com/@mikeselectricstuff - the original electronics youtuber

https://www.youtube.com/@okooptics - turns out you REALLY dont know anything about optics

https://www.youtube.com/@UsagiElectric - buid computers from the wires up

https://www.youtube.com/@wbeaty - the original science youtuber

Some of these guys rarely upload anymore but the stuff they have uploaded is brilliant. I tried to pick guys who are least likely to show up on the main-stream of recommendations.

Wow, just discovered DeArrow from this comment. Thank you for sharing.

Paid the $1 and am prospering. :)

Youtubes algorithm is super stubborn and even moreso when it comes to old accounts. I'm far more likely to see a shit post I watched 10 years ago appear in my recommendations than I am anything to do with AI unless it's shitting on the tech.

To answer her question: constant vigilance 🫩

My wife watches cooking and food videos on youtube, and has for years. Recently I've been amazed at all of the AI videos that are popping up. Mostly related to nostalgia (how gramma was able to prepare chicken stew on a cold winters night for her poor family...). I can see why it would be cost effective to create these videos. I cannot get past the voices though. They really sound off, but I can't put my finger on it. I bug her about "selling out" by watching these AI videos and her response is "How the hell am I supposed to tell which is which?!".

Bring back the dislike counter and we might actually be able to do something about it.

I’ve encountered more slop videos posted on Lemmy than I’ve clicked on the algorithm on YouTube, so there’s that anecdata.

I watch youtube quite a lot while doing chores and things like that. Or watch shows like taskmaster. My recommendations are all just things i would watch anyway. Every now and then there is a mr.veast or something that i click: do not recommend. A minth or so ago, i logged out of my youtube and got tge whole unfiltered homepage. Holy shit, that is a sight to behold. I don't think i would use youtube at all if that was my first glance ever. It was all trump this fox news that and people doing the YouTube face unironically

Not what happened to me. Creators I watch who say things that are unfriendly to advertising will just be missing from my literal subscriptions page where my subscribed channels are listed.

Other ones have stopped having their videos appear in my subscriptions page when they drop a new video if I didn't watch previous ones when they released. FD Signifier and a few other channels have correlated this but I can only search for one lane of evidence right now and that's a lot of video to go back through

Here's some trouble shooting guides that were written recently to address this and also other people who correlate this exact behavior verbally affirming or providing screenshots they are on the correct page. There's been at least one plugin made to address the problem, I completely stopped using youtube's frontend because of it. 1 2 3 4

If it hasn't happened to you that's great. Large websites like youtube and reddit don't tend to implement these on everyone all at once. Or you just watch channels that don't trigger the conditions, I have close to 200 that I'm subscribed to so it's a crazy wide sample size. It ultimately correlates with youtube's goals to move people from the subscription page into recommendations so they can be suggested more kinds of videos that are preferred by the company's interests. While I was searching links to post I found that they recently ran a consumer test in may where they removed the subscription page entirely from the app.