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https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions is my Youtube bookmark. It's just who I'm subscribed to. That's it.
I just wanted to mention, because apparently only ~7% of us exist who use the Subscriptions feed, according to various Youtubers showing off their stats pages.
Its impossible for me to subscribe to a youtuber because I don't have (and don't want) a Youtube account. I understand Youtubers get more visibility with more subscriptions, but I just don't want to be part of the algorithm. I can close my private browser, and any algorithm infection is wiped clean from my view.
Depending on your setup, YouTube will still fingerprint your browser and track your behavior, as is common practice with ad networks.
Your cookies and data might be cleared but as long as yt has any way to generate a unique identifier out of your browser preferences, it will identify you and start looking at your behavior / figuring out an algorithm.
Just fyi.
Sure, it can start building it again just with what I search to watch. Then I get to close the browser again and wipe it clean again. I know that fingerprinting exists, but I'm not seeing its behavior for video suggestions. In fact, I do see tracking by IP because I'll get suggested things I know my wife is looking at (and we're coming from the same IP). Even those are few and far between though.
I would strongly recommend using a VPN and changing servers regularly in that case.
because I don't have (and don't want) a Youtube account.
Every channel has an RSS feed. I use that instead.
You can download newpipe and subscribe there. It makes a local subscription, no account needed. Also no ads.
piped.30p87.de
And all other piped/invidious instances. You can sub locally, and everything is stored as a cookie in your browser (afaik).
That's fine, I'm not tempted by the sidebars to partake in the algo at all because I've removed them with extensions. Without an account, yeah then I'd be using NewPipe and whatever desktop equivalents are surely out there.
Wait, what do the other 93% do?
Homepage. That's where those complaints that people never see a youtuber's videos "anymore" comes from.
Thanks for the reminder, I really must change my bookmarks to this, such a simple change.
Not viable for the mobile app of course, but even having the browser sorted would be a start.
Technical platforms? Yes.
Content platforms? No.
!peertube@lemmy.world
It's still not as popular but it's making headway with makers.
Or if you want to stay on YouTube itself others have added clients that don't have algorithms.
They need to fix their instance list with filters. Wasn't a fan of having to scroll through pages <20 user instances with closed registration.
Yes!
If you have a Linux OS on a PC then Freetube is a terrific desktop app.
You can import your subscriptions from YT there.
If it's only ads that you hate then Revanced mobile app is the way. Unless you are on iPhone - then it won't work. It's Android only.
I use freetube, an open source youtube frontend
It's not an alternative per se, but it does make youtubes shit easier to stand
Front page is just all the videos from your subs in order of most recently uploaded. Super useful, especially if you find yourself missing out on videos from some of your less frequent uploaders
I also have the LibRedirect extension set so that when I click on a YouTube link, it opens in FreeTube.
just all the videos from your subs in order of most recently uploaded.
What's the difference to https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions ?
Edit: It's a genuine question. Is there a functional difference, or simply privacy reasons?
Freetube is much faster than just using the web browser. On my surface tablet using YouTube.com is very sluggish compared to freetube
One of the best ways to start getting away from YouTube is to use Grayjay.
You can still follow content creators who are only on YouTube, but it allows you to curate your feed and mix in all of the content creators that do upload their content to other platforms like Peertube, Nebula, Odysee, Patreon, Twitch, Kick, Bitchute, Rumble, etc.
Can I import my followed channels from Youtube?
Just want to add in terms of all the suggestions: remember that alternative can also mean "in addition to" as well as "instead of." people wanting instead-ofs will run away from alternatives quicker, which radically hinders the "build it and they will come" momentum that these sites need to better alternatives in the long run
That's where I am with Lemmy right now. I still have reddit installed, I still dabble on Reddit but over time I'm finding I'm there less and less.
This is the second time I've tried Lemmy and its much more successful, I think it'll be my main social media.
Very good point. Many of these alternatives with less traffic are much better if one doesn't see them as 100% replacements.
No. Though I think it's important to separate video serving Youtube and recommendations/algorithm YouTube. We need FOSS solutions to both and neither will be easy.
I absolutely agree! I just want something akin to the YT experience
you can disable YouTube history
Piped.video is an option directly in the browser. Or Invidious.
On mobile (android) I've seen NewPipe as an option
Inside newpipe. No feed or homepage (as long as you set it to that), just a list of the channels I've subscribed to. I just manually go through them if I'm looking for something to watch.
I run a Piped server for myself and friends, but it can be challenging to keep running. Whenever YT comes up with a new way to fuck around with NewPipe, you sometimes need to wait for someone that knows how to fix it shows up and makes a PR.
I have seen others say that youtube channels have their own RSS feeds. Could plug each YouTube channel you want to follow into an RSS app of your choice. Not ideal, but should avoid algorithms
I gave up on the algorithm years ago and only use the subscription feed now.
PipePipe is still yt but its only a subscription feed and integrates perfectly with other services like peertube
Invidious.
~~That's not an alternative. It's just another frontend.~~
edit: didn't see the youtube algo part. Mb
Algo? I'm assuming algorithm? I rarely if ever use that. Just find creators you enjoy and subscribe to them, I have a giant list of them I watch and never have to deal with YouTube algorithms at all.
Sounds like you should try TV to keep up with news
I meant like industry news. Blender, esp32, and such. Ya know nerdy shit. I get my news news from NPR and the AP
I added my subs to an RSS feed but honestly I really like the algorithm...