Inspired by this post but the other way around. Which channels (any subject) do you think have stayed true to their beginnings and are still worth watching today?

My pick would be Gamers Nexus.

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[+] 124 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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    The various PBS YouTube channels almost never miss.

    Some of the best science content on the internet and explains everything in layman's terms.

    For higher level science:

    https://www.youtube.com/c/TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas

    Puts up conferences and interviews of some of the top scientific minds on the planet.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    PBS is awesome and I donate to them whenever I can. So should everyone.

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  • [–] 75 points 11 months ago (4 children)
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    Even his no effort November videos are high quality.

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  • [–] 61 points 11 months ago

    Tasting History with Max Miller.

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  • [–] 109 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

    Primitive technology. There are many imitators, but the original is a man on his own in Australia. His videos focus on building structures in the woods. Starting with river mud, he will make a furnace in order to make bricks in order to make a building to sleep in in order to use it for kiln drying for larger structures etc.....

    Be sure to watch with subtitles to read his explanation of things!

    Edit to fix: he is based in Australia, not new Zealand.

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago

    Also needs to be said that he's been creating for a decade and every video is consistently as good as the last one. The man single handedly spawned an entire genre and he just kept doing his own thing, algorithms and influencer culture be damned.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    This was also the first channel I thought of when looking at the question. Shame that it created so many low effort imitations that are obviously fake though.

    Is there anyone out there that is even vaguely similar without being fake?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Very glad to see this mentioned, yet somewhat miffed you think he's in, I assume "Tropical" New Zealand?

    His videos, and those of Lemmino, are the only ones where I'll set aside a time of day so I can watch them alone and happy.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    You can blame this all on me for my ignorance. As someone from the US, I can't say I am very familiar with the details on Australian versus New Zealand geography. No miffing was intentional, I assure you!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Isn't he in Northern Qld, Australia. In only ever watched part of 1 episode and he was there then (I am Australian)

    I get the idea he's around Kuranda ? maybe Tully (i lived up there many yeaes ago)

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  • [+] 48 points 11 months ago (8 children)
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    His quality had definitely fallen around the time he made his site. He would just upload videos of shitting on bad locks and using his own tools. I unsubscribed shortly after. I don't know if it's any better now, but originally he would upload a video when the video had something worthwhile to show.

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    As someone who owns a couple lock picks and plays around with em, let me tell you, knowing how to do it does not make it easy. Info about how to pick locks is easily obtained elsewhere, and honestly his videos aren't exactly helpful in an instructional way. I really doubt he's had a large effect on criminals using lockpicks, especially when it's so much easier to most to cut them with bolt cutters. What I would say he has had more of an impact on is people using more secure locks than masterlocks. I suspect he's had a net benefit on security. I dunno, not like I know the statistics or anything, I think it's a fair estimate though.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I do sort of wonder what the point of his channel is. Every now and then one of his videos will be recommended and I'll watch it, but I've learnt that there is absolutely no point because they're all exactly the same. He always picks every lock within about 4 seconds.

    I'm not really interested in knowing which locks I shouldn't buy. I want to know which locks I should.

    All the lock picking channels are like that though, I think they feel that if they upload video where they can't get into a lock, that means that in some way they've failed. So they don't do it.

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  • [–] 47 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (9 children)

    FortNine: both the content and the video quality are top notch.
    TechnologyConnections is the only channel where you'll waste an hour nerding out on washing machines, even if you don't own one.
    Louis Rossmann has been instrumental in the fight for right to repair in the US.

    Yeah i could list many more but you asked for one (and i already overran that), plus these are the ones that stand out to me.

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Rossman does good work but I wouldn't call his videos "High Quality"

    He's like Gamers Nexus, very rambly and angry. If you like that vibe and just want a techy "Grinds my gears" ass rant channel to put on while you do anything else, he's fine.

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  • [+] 130 points 11 months ago (12 children)
  • [–] 89 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    But he stopped making videos. I'd say that's a significant drop in quality.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

    Or simplify taking a stand that he wasn't willing to go down the click bait path the algorithm pushes for. I haven't found another comment for a channel I agree with here yet

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Actually, 3Blue1brown and PBS science videos (minus space) are pretty great too

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    pbs spacetime, discusses astrophysics, and discovery on the universe, if you a nerd for physics that is.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Yeah, good question. I can't remember why I went off it. There is definitely some good content. I think for a while he was just really excited about the multiverse and that's just a bit too strong an interpretation in my mind to go push that hard. It might have been something else. Its been a while

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  • [–] 38 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    I'll hop on the Technology Connections train and add

    Styropyro

    CathodeRayDude

    Civvie11

    Northernlion

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  • [–] 35 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

    Primitive Technology. He started the whole "build a shelter in the woods" genre that has become so dumb, but his videos are still just as great as ever. No narration or music, other than the sounds of the birds and insects, just interesting experiments into basic technology like shelters, fire, charcoal, kilns, pottery, small machines, bricks, roof tiles, etc., all using only the most primitive stone age tools, created from materials found in the forest and stream around his camp.

    Even his attire is as spare as his videos, just a pair of khaki shorts.

    Currently, he's working through a series of experiments to make fire hot enough to smelt metal.

    I've been watching him since he started, and he's the only channel that I stop everything to watch when a new video drops.

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    If you're interested in why he is doing what he is doing - I would highly suggest turning on the close captions. It was a game changer as someone that is entertained by infotainment!

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Map Men. It's always educational, interesting, and they have amazing Monty Pythonish gags and jokes.

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  • [–] 31 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Map Men / Jay Foreman

    Interesting and genuinely amusing for about 15 years at this point.

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    This one guy Richard Astley. Banging tunes and the smoothest moves.

    But really: Technology Connections

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago* (10 children)

    Cross-instance linking is a mess. You linked to an ad for your mobile app, which links to a kbin instance, which links back to lemmy.world... The app page devotes most of its space to download links while kbin demands the viewer log in before it will show them anything.

    Technology Connections are great, but this doesn't feel very connected.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (7 children)

    Op should have used threadiverse.link, or the home instance of the content, both of which are options in Voyager. The voyager link is primarily for sending to non-lemmy users.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    My Voyager app only seems to offer the vger.to link. It's a recent change I'm not happy about.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Ah shit really?! Mine still has all the options. I get Voyager from F-Droid, not sure if that makes any difference, maybe my version is slightly out of date? Either way, seems like a shitty change, which will probably end up getting reversed.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    Mine is version 2.41.0, obtained from F-Droid.

    To be fair, it could be some kind of user error -- maybe the option does exist, but I'm not seeing it for some reason -- but I don't really think so.

    Edit: Ah! It's a setting! Settings →General → Other → Share Links. Mine is set to "Voyager App (vger.to)", but there are also the other options you mentioned, as well as "ask" (which is presumably what yours is set to).

    I'm pretty sure vger.to is the default (perhaps for new installs -- I changed phones relatively recently), which is unfortunate, since I definitely didn't change that setting.

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  • [–] 22 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Numberphile and any other channel by Brady Haran.

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    Honestly I have begun to question whether Project Farm staying exactly the same is good or not for me as a viewer.

    I used to watch every video, even if it was for a tool I'd never need myself. Now on a lot of them, I just tend to watch just the beginning to see the initial assessment of the competing products and the final summary, since I know what the whole middle is going to be.

    I'm sure that's not the healthiest thing for the channel, as it cuts "engagement time" and I'd like to see a heat map to see if I'm not the only one doing this.

    I just trust the guy maybe too much at this point, plus since most products I don't need, I'm not that invested in the minutia show by the main segment of the videos.

    None of this is a knock on the channel or his videos, but as the question was about what has stayed good and you are still watching, that made me think how PF was still as good as ever, but that has somewhat reduced my watching of it.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I'm in the same boat. I subscribed to the lowest tier of his Patreon to stop feeling guilty : https://www.patreon.com/projectfarm

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    That's a very good way to compensate! Some of the products and testing things he buys aren't cheap, and he often tests to failure, so helping recoup that money is likely very beneficial.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The pacing is a little grating too, he speeds up his voice-over these days in post. Just compare how he sounds in older videos to the newer ones.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Huh now that you say that, I had felt they seemed "rushed" but I thought maybe he was just testing more brands at once and trying to keep the videos the same length.

    My wife absolutely hates his voice, even at standard speed, to the point she leaves the room. 😄

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