[atoav]

Youtube is one of those platforms I would probably never have used if my feed wouldn't be adjusted to me.

There is real gold on youtube, like for example the math explainers by 3blue1brown. But if you ever tries opening a private browser window and opening and see the video recommendations it looks like a platform only containing mindless trash, with the mental nutritents contained in a piece of cardboard.

And there are people who like precisely that: Mindnumbing somethings that just keep your brain from having a single thought.

[array_key_first]

YouTube recommendations don't work at all for me. YouTube will only recommend to me videos I've already seen. No matter what.

Home page? All videos I've seen. Sidebar? All videos I've seen.

The only way for me to find any new content is literally to search. It makes zero sense.

[the_af]

Agreed. YouTube shines with personalized feed, and is unusable without it.

[floundy]

If you’re using it as a tool it’s perfectly usable with just a search bar. I want to learn how to do something in a visual manner, I go to YouTube. Type in “how to replace [part] on [my car]”. All I have on the YouTube homepage is a search bar, because I used the Unhook extension to hide everything else.

[the_af]

Oh, I use YouTube for my hobbies, which are very visual.

Using YouTube (or any video thing) for programming topics drives me nuts, the presenter never goes at my pace.