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Good morning Nostr 🌞

I've figured out a way to search for YouTube videos prior to 2021, which is great because it's so depressing how it's almost entirely AI slop now.

I used to get a lot of comfort out of watching people talk philosophy during coffee, it creates like a parasocial relationship. Not great, but better than nothing. AI makes it feel even more lonely to be alone. And it creates awful, shallow, trite versions of the deep discussions I crave.

I am really hating the sponsors still. I pay for premium to avoid ads, but when did content creators start heavily including ads in the content to bombard premium users with ads still?

Is Nostr working on a client that will bring back the "You" in "YouTube"? It feels more like AITube now and I hate it.
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Kontext 2mo ago

There's still a bunch of both old and new philosophical content available on YT... Academy of Ideas, Michael Sugrue, Gregory B. Sadler, John Vervaeke to name a few channels.

As for ads (from the YT side), you can use Brave browser and skip feeding Google 😉 Ads from the content creators themselves probably won't stop unless/until #V4V gets big enough.

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Kip Ashlynn 2mo ago

I love Michael Sugrue and will absolutely check out the others you list!

The ads aren't a problem for me from YT side, but rather that more recent content creators will pause and go off about their favorite shampoo which is an ad but isn't blocked the way YT side ads are blocked for me already.

It's more recent content that does it though, again solved by just watching Michael Sugrue content 😅 I feel like increasingly the media I consume is just like, 30 years old. It's just better.