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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. borgdefenser ◴[16 Mar 25 13:01 UTC] No.43378703[source]▶
I am almost a month into having a Perplexity subscription and I am not sure I can not have a deep research subscription at this point.

I have found youtube videos this month that I don't know how I would have found otherwise that were just part of the sources for what deep research came back with.

It has really created the opposite problem for me is I have so much good information I don't even know what to do with it right now. I am probably taking a month off to just sort through what I found this past month.