Loads of interesting tech and other stuff.

https://invidious.snopyta.org/

edit:ok maybe the suggestions are what everyone gets anyway. never mind that, feel the privacy.

  • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    oh cool a new video streaming site that i would need to train to stop trying to make me watch pewdiepie and other reactionary shit

      • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I mean if the purpose is to obscure you from Youtube tracking that's probably good but the suggestions on the front page are just as bad as regular youtube, doesn't seem to be any kind of improvement in that aspect

          • nat_turner_overdrive [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            well my initial thought was 'but i've spent all this time eliminating that right wing shit from my suggestions" but i also scroll through my subscribed feed and only watch a little bit so maybe re-training the algo isn't such a big deal

    • pluggd [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      except after I posted I realized there was a pew video on the front page. All the rest of the suggestions seemed way better than the usual shit but people are saying it's the same.

    • pluggd [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah some people have said that. Are those the type of suggestions you'd normally be getting, outside invidious?

      Gonna have to admit I don't go to the youtube homepage that often, but that from memory, the suggestions at the youtube homepage always seemed much more lobstery than invidious, even from different PCs or fresh installs or whatever.

      • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Are those the type of suggestions you’d normally be getting, outside invidious?

        If i'm logged out of youtube, yeah pretty much

        • pluggd [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          ok, confirmed. suggestions are the same as always, I was wrong. The privacy and tracker blocking are worth it though.

    • pluggd [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Someone else said the same. I didn't go to the Youtube front page that often tbh, but it was always the worst kind of fluff with some lobster shit. The front page of invidious seemed a lot better, educational and techy stuff. Aren't the suggestions influenced by cookies, history and other metadata, so there'd be different suggestions on the invidious front page?

        • pluggd [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          even without signing in or having an account they'll still have metadata, cookies and other identifiers that will influence your suggestions, I think

    • pluggd [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      I saw that after I posted tbh. Almost every other suggestion was decent though, compared to youtube. Lots of kind of techy and educational stuff. It felt like the first time in forever I wasn't getting a lobster suggestion.

      and the privacy that goes with snopyta, if true, is pretty great.

  • Optional [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    This.

    But you only linked one Invidious instance. Here's the list: https://github.com/iv-org/documentation/blob/master/Invidious-Instances.md

    • pluggd [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      nice. All the snopyta services are great, a lot to explore.

  • Wojackhorseman2 [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Download and use free tube and then youll get absolutely no recommendations lol