It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like “the world will end soon” or “my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto.”

Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.

Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I’m start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.

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    I don’t read books or watch TV shows or watch movies or watch sports.

    I watch a ton of educational, engineering, cooking, BMX, woodworking, and retro game channels.

    Favorites are:

    • Technology Connections
    • Mark Rober
    • Backyard Scientist
    • Allen Pan
    • Lockpicking Lawyer
    • Smarter Every Day
    • Rex Krueger
    • Stuff Made Here
    • Retro Bird
    • Spencer Foresman
    • Action Lab
    • Veritasium
    • Vsauce
    • Ethan Chlebowski
    • That Dude Can Cook
    • Stumpy Numbs
    • Electroboom
    • Styropyro
    • Nile Red
    • Anthony Panza
    • Sam O’Nella
    • Collin Furze
    • Sam Pilgrim

    Oh my. I should stop. There are so many more.

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        I never thought I would care even the slightest bit about turn signal solenoids, but I watched the whole hour long video with fascination lol

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      Good list. A few ones I would add are:

      • Solar Sands *I did a thing
      • Integza
      • Tom Stanton
      • Ahoy
      • LGR
      • Techmoan
      • The 8-bit guy
      • Tom Scott
      • LEMMiNO
      • Mustard
      • bigclivedotcom
      • Practical Engineering
      • DIY Perks
      • Steve Mould
      • b2studios
      • Plasma Channel
      • Real Engineering
      • POSY
      • Mike Boyd
      • Bobby Broccoli
      • NileRed
      • VWestlife

      More technical:

      • Ben Eater
      • Sebastian Lague
      • Kevin Fang
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      I really wish there was a save comment feature because I’m subscribed to about half of those and I need to check the other half out.

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        At least in sync there is the option to save comments and it works. You can afterwards find the comments in your profile. Not sure if it’s a sync or a Lemmy feature though.

        Edit: just checked and it’s actually a Lemmy feature. You can just long press a comment and hit the star to save it.