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I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS - and You Should Too (joeyehand.com)
submitted 1 day ago by zapzap@lemmings.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Blogger discovers this cool thing called "RSS".

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[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 37 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

Protip: Youtube channels have RSS feeds, they're just buried in the source of the page. Ctrl-U and then Ctrl-F title="RSS"

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 2 points 1 hour ago

You can also just drop the youtube channel link (ex. https://www.youtube.com/@LinusTechTips ) as well into most readers and it'll sort it out for you, so you don't even have to go digging.

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 7 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

I guess to get actual value from these videos you will still need to visit youtube.com though, in the end giving them valuable data to analyze.

[–] killingspark@feddit.org 5 points 3 hours ago

Yeah but the goal here is to escape the algorithm deciding what you consume

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

You can play YouTube videos in VLC player

[–] glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe try one of the downloaders

[–] Covenant@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 hour ago

I can recommend yt-dlp

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

It's in order if you only use the subscriptions tab too

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

A couple weeks ago I did a poll and it turns out almost 25% of the people who "watch YT daily or almost daily" don't know about the subscriptions tab.

It's so weird, but explains so many people claiming to not see new uploads. They only use the home page and never the actual subscriptions

[–] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting, whenever I see the home page videos my soul dies a little. Couldn't handle that regularly

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago

The home page is fine for me, it's dialed pretty well into my tastes. I always click the don't reccommend channel or video if I don't like a recommendation.

The Trending tab, on the other hand... Yikes.

[–] NudeNewt@lemm.ee 1 points 19 hours ago

TIL. Gonna have to test this out my FreshRSS feed. Ty 🥰