I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too
I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too
Joey Einerhand's Portfolio and tech blog.
Blogger discovers this cool thing called "RSS".
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Protip: Youtube channels have RSS feeds, they're just buried in the source of the page. Ctrl-U and then Ctrl-F title="RSS"
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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.
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Yeah but the goal here is to escape the algorithm deciding what you consume
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good point, organic sharing is better than the addictive algorithm.
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You can play YouTube videos in VLC player
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Maybe try one of the downloaders
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I can recommend yt-dlp
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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.
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I wrote my own rss reader for youtubue, so it does this digging for me when I paste in a channel link :)
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It's in order if you only use the subscriptions tab too
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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
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Interesting, whenever I see the home page videos my soul dies a little. Couldn't handle that regularly
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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.
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TIL. Gonna have to test this out my FreshRSS feed. Ty 🥰
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