[solardev]

FWIW https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y... is a crowdsourced way to skip past promos (by timestamp).

Or some creators have moved to Nebula, which seems to have less of that crap but IMO a worse UI than YouTube.

[mcast]

I really appreciate creators who add chapters to their YouTube videos, especially their sponsorship advertisements, since you can easily skip over them.

[a_JIT_pie]

I enjoy this with the Youtube ReVanced app. It's an amazing feature on top of regular ad blocking. I can never go back to regular YouTube.

[vishwajeetv]

I wish there was AI + crowdsourced extension as such.

[IntelMiner]

While I like Nebula on premise, it seems creators on it are getting 'lazier' and some of the people on the site are downright questionable ("TL;DR News" and "Therapist Reacts" being the biggest offenders for me)

Like, why am I paying Nebula for this garbage? https://i.imgur.com/itiLYbK.png

[verall]

I think Little Joel is a treasure, personally

He still does long-form well-researched videos if you're into that, too

[ravetcofx]

Yeah don't be dunking on little joel. He's

[solardev]

Is that really Nebula's fault? YouTube, TikTok, etc. are full of garbage too.

I don't really know their arrangement with creators (one would hope creators get a bigger cut there, otherwise why leave YouTube?), but my favorite creators* have the same videos on both, just a little earlier on Nebula usually.

*Just engineering channels though, which is probably why they're not as spammy/shock-reaction-y.

https://nebula.tv/practical-engineering

https://nebula.tv/realengineering

https://nebula.tv/the-efficient-engineer

are all excellent

[chmod775]

Never used them.

The way they're marketing themselves I didn't think I would have to curate their content myself. How much do I need do I need to pay to not have to sift through brain-numbing clickbait diarrhea?

At that point you might as well just kill your time on YouTube. Plenty of good channels there too - if you can stand the stench of the heap of trash they're buried under.

[solardev]

Oh, I never thought of Nebula as a curation service, just a hosting service that the creators I like seem to prefer (who knows why, maybe they get paid more there or have some promotion with them?). But I eventually moved back to YouTube too, for unrelated reasons (auto captions etc.)

I don't think any video site these days can be easily "browsed" if you want to avoid the garbage :( It's all about picking and choosing specific channels/creators to follow and ignoring the crap... sadly.

[addicted]

I don’t pay Nebula for that “garbage” (although that creator has a very different, and possibly unique, style of videos).

What you are paying for is all the other stuff that isn’t garbage.

The “garbage” adds negligible costs to the Nebula experience.

[KittenInABox]

Are you unfamiliar with Little Joel? Big Joel has actual deep analysis if you like, but Little Joel is just a silly side channel of his. You're paying for this, plus also multi-hour-long analysis of, say, media analysis contrasting with the role of Jewish people who were coerced to cooperate with the Nazis in concentration camps.

Nebula is meant to serve a variety of videos. I'd probably feel the same of "I have to watch ads for this crap?" for YouTube, y'know?

[rchaud]

You may be paying Nebula, but like all UGC platforms, it can't show you what it doesn't have. Social media video is heavy on lazy "TLDR", and light on substance.

[Theizestooke]

What is questionable about TLDR News?