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greggyb ◴[] No.43374252[source]
A question for the author or anyone else who has experience in similar solutions.

Is there any good solution for discovering new content? Much of the time, I want to stick to my subscriptions, but I do enjoy content surfaced by the algorithm at least once weekly, sometimes more often. My concern in taking my viewing off-platform is twofold: 1) going to YouTube will prompt me with all the stuff I've already watched off platform, and 2) any changes to my viewing habits won't be reflected in algorithmic suggestions.

Am I making any bad assumptions or missing anything that would be useful?

As an example, I usually get conference presentations surfaced for me, but I don't track conferences to know when I should go looking for presentations. YouTube is good at surfacing these for me.

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1. atum47 ◴[] No.43374347[source]
I've been using a third party app to watch the videos and the official app to discover content.

Instead of just clicking the video I click share and watch on the unofficial with no ads.

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2. greggyb ◴[] No.43379185[source]
Does this have an apparent impact on your recommendations?