[keiferski]

YouTube is easily the best “social network” in terms of having high-quality content with minimal manipulation. And I definitely consider it my main form of media consumption.

You just have to curate your feed and add stuff to playlists, not watch whatever is on the logged-out default home page.

[RGamma]

Is watching videos considered a social activity now? The word "social" truly seems to have been tortured to death.

[lukan]

What? You have to do a lot of curation and fighting the service itself (hiding shorts) to get to a bearable level. And I did not spend hours clicking things I don't like. I mostly just watch movies/clips I want, but my recommendations are full of clickbait manipulative garbage. So yes, one can find jewels in it - but only if digging through the garbage first.

[keiferski]

I watch a ton of great content by people that I subscribe to. It's not difficult or complicated to get there.

Not sure what else to say.

[lukan]

But you don't agree it took a lot of effort to hide the garbage?

[keiferski]

Not really, if anything, there is too much stuff I want to watch that is suggested to me.

I suppose if you created an account today you'd be fed a lot of garbage, but I've been watching YouTube often for at least a couple years.