[smusamashah]

I find youtube recommendations on homepage really interesting. So much that I wish that article suggestions by Google in Android left side window were as good.

I mostly watch tech, games, dev, toys etc. including rocket jump, Siggraph, viva LA dirt league, corridor, Tom Scott, Vertassium, Steve mould, numberphile etc.

I almost always end up finding something interesting to watch. When it's not, I either mark it as 'not interested' or leave a dislike and it becomes good again

[zamadatix]

The thing I hate about recommendations on the homepage is clicking one 30 second funny video from a friend results in clicking "not interested" in 30 videos on the homepage to stop them from being recommended. Similarly, even if you use a different account, if you watch something you like and the algorithm decides it's more related to some other topic you don't like or thing you have no interest in it also floods the recommendations with this "fresh" topic you're "interested" in simply because you liked a video it misclassified.

Much like the author I have no problems finding "decent" content from traditional wide audience channels like Tom Scott, Veritasium, Numberphile, Siggraph, etc it's trying to find that 1 video out of the full homepage of recommendations that's not mainstream but actually "very good" and in depth that ends up eating more time than watching the videos - followed by a refresh to apply all of the "not interested"s I added to try to steer away from certain content. Definitely going to try this repo when I get home.