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greggyb ◴[15 Mar 25 18:17 UTC] 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. creer ◴[15 Mar 25 19:47 UTC] No.43374767[source]▶
I readily follow youtube links offered on HN discussions. If anything, I could use more of these.

But otherwise I agree with your concern. Video recommendations on youtube was far from perfect (very repetitive in my experience), but was uncovering useful stuff.