@gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone Actually they formed together in 1982 - and a good bulk of their good music actually came out during their prime days

Woah! I didn't know Red Hot Chili Peppers (formed in 1989) and Nirvana (formed in 1987) were 80s music! Amazing!

Especially since the bulk of their actually popular music was released in the early 90s

Instead of deleting your watch history, check what shows up as recommended on the sidebar by private browsing, or browsing via Invidious. For better results, try searching for somewhat specific topics - like "roasted chicken recipe" instead of a generic "cooking". Sometimes going 2 recommended videos deep can yield some good finds.

Hard to say; I don't usually use them.

are these badges always present in your feed? I've noticed that they often just disappear, which makes me refresh the page a dozen times.

You know how on your recommendations page/feed, there are little category badges near the top you can click on to restrict what's being shown? If you click on the right angle bracket one enough times, there should be one that appears that says something like "New to You". For me it's often the very last badge in a clearly auto generated list of things I have recently watched.

I think that is the closest you will get to an existing feature that actually looks for new things, short of looking up random words in a private browsing session on a new device on a separate internet connection.

I don't have any good advice, so I will just list some unorthodox ways to discover new videos:

• Use filmot.com. It allows you to search for channels by keyword among other things.
• Search for specific topics on YouTube by putting the search term into double quotes, sort by popularity, and scroll down. I found lots of hidden gems that way.
• YouTube lets you filter search results for playlists. Since many users put their favorite videos into playlists, this is a good way to find older, unusual, and unlisted videos.
• Search for site:youtube.com OR site:youtu.be on your favorite subreddit
• Search for youtube.com on Lemmy. You can filter by community and add more keywords.
• Install the FreshView browser addon to hide already watched videos on YouTube (probably does not work on mobile).

Wait you don't want to see meme compilation shorts with a hot girl in the thumbnail and the comments filled with. "Pass the ball...", "Smash, Next" or the classic "Would, Raw".

Ok, so here's a short of 5 cat videos with a ranking on the side from 1-10.

Oh you don't like that too, maybe you'll love this fun video game fact with an AI voice over. (Spoiler: The fact is that an voice actor also voiced another character in another game)

Also No? Maybe a viral video clip with a guy at the bottom pretending to watch it and just nodding along.

Ah I get it, youre not interested in shorts... now I catch your drift.

Are you interested in finding out that YOU'VE BEEN DOING/USING X WRONG THE ENTIRE TIME. Here's the first guy to ever read the user manual for a spatula and now has to make a 30:41 long video about it.

Or maybe a video essay about a game/movie, or even better a retrospective (everybody knows retro is always better, nostalgia amarite).

Oh, you just want a review. How about this one. Here's a guy that for the first 5 minutes complains how bad and woke this new game is and then followed by an hour of cut down gameplay from an 6 hours stream of him playing it.

Or maybe...

I could literally go on forever.

If I find a channel I like immediately subscribe , I'll be honest idk if commenting will much affect the algorithm. I have YouTube and podcasts for my background noise, I'm quickly depleting my choices on YouTube though, but I think that's ridiculous considering the amount of content, purely a fault of the algorithm

I’m not sure but some how I get shown a lot of feeds of people with less than 100 subs. I remember commenting on some guys video and him being so excited he was recommended on search.

Do you spend time with and interact with smaller channels as a significant portion of your time on youtube? Do you subscribe to them?

I’m almost invisible to the larger channels.

I usually find new channels by looking at the sidebar recommendations on subscribed channels.

I also only view my subscriptions page and turned off YouTube history.

When I run out of YouTube content I just stop watching. I am also old.

I actually talked about that in the last paragraph

You might want to wipe your watched history to have it start fresh.

wasnt crt really bad for your eyes?

I don't think I could go back to the size and weight of it. Cost for a high-end one as well. I don't hate the shader route, though I only really like the triangular-filter layout which isn't always available (although for high-res CRT like in the video, I'm not sure if you'd see it).

I am also using a very cheap monitor now (and a 1050Ti still), though. I'd be lucky to get a hand-me-down OLED with a bit of burn-in. I also don't play modern games obviously, so it's not a big deal either.

Same mood here....

Despite nobody in peertube...... 🤷‍♀️😬

It's been steadily enshittifying on the user experience side too.

• subscription feed has been removed from the sidebar when expanded (but continues to exist when not)
• you can no longer add a video to multiple playlists at once. now you need to wait for the toast to clear, then press the kebab menu again, for each playlist.
• search filtering has been nerfed just today. you can't sort results by upload date anymore.

The last one basically makes my work curating new content on a search term impossible now. what a load of bs.

Fantastic read! Thanks for sharing. I need to find a good tutorial to get started with Peertube