I really like fall of civilizations podcast, there are many hours of well researched and produced history. And also for a smaller creater underthefigtree is very cozy.
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Tbh I’ve gotten almost 0 AI generated content in my YT recommendations. Algorithm knows I won’t like it I guess
The algorithms have always been evil. youtube is best as entertainment by your own hand picked curated creators.
I've been enjoying History of Everything (Podcast) with Stakuyi for a bit now, definitely recommend.
Bro wym there's all kinds of great history content on yt. Drachinifel, cone of arc, ocean liner designs, Nick Zentner (if you like the geologic history of the PNW), the list goes on.
I'm convinced Ned Zinger is a robot
This was never an issue for me. I almost exclusively use the "home" (I guess that's "recommend") part of the youtube app and very rarely get AI videos in any form (voice, images etc.). The few times it's happened I do I just tap the three buttons and select "don't recommend channel". About 80% of videos shown are from channels I watch regularly and the rest are a random mix of interest relevant things with a few completely random ones here and there. Not once has it been any AI heavy anything.
Epic History
YouTube Morphe for Android has an option to filter out AI videos (along with ads and sponsored segments too, of course).
How does it know?
I imagine previous viewers vote on it to let others know.
https://github.com/Override92/AiSList/blob/main/AiSList/aislist_blocklist.txt
Looks like this is their source.
I could see that working well, considering how good things like sponsor block are
Dude my coworker keeps sending me AI astrophysics videos because we have arguments about "new discoveries" not being real. It's going to make people dumb as hell. Tbf he already is
Its like they're not even people anymore.
Ai voice or is just text to voice? Some people are adverse to having their voice online like that, but still want to participate in things.
Seemingly AI voice. There's a really good Kyle Hill video about them.
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There’s a great quote “… the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.” from Marcus Aurelius. With this in mind I’ve been regretting the kind of person YouTube has been dying my soul with.
I’ve unironically returned to books and writing/reviewing in notebooks to fill in the gaps of my time. You can get notebooks that fit in your pocket and can just pluck it out and review whatever ideas you’ve been chewing on lately instead starting up a video. I add to the notebooks as I read.
When I have more time in the evenings I can collate those notes into broader writing projects, which are mostly simple blog posts. This process has brought me a fantastic feeling of clarity.
As someone who wants to ditch YouTube this is helpful to me. Thanks.
I really struggle to find a good alternative use of my time. It hasn't always been like this. A humbling experience.
you should look on fmhy.net (free media heck yea). It gathers all sorts of free internet content like linking to archives with history content or places to find recipes.
Worked better for me than a searchengine for starting with sourdough (my starters could be dead by now)
I will never watch any of that slop. I'd rather stare at the fucking ceiling.
I have stopped using the youtube frontpage and blocked the algorithmic recommendations from appearing.
Now I only browse my subscriptions.
My recommendations for food history: Tasting History with Max Miller + Townsends
For Military History: Lindybeige
For Medieval Clothing: Bernadette Banner
Medieval Life: V. Birchwood
General History: Premodernist
For ancient history and prehistory, there are extraordinary riches:
History With Cy
Dan Davis History
Stefan Milo
Ancient Architects
World Of Antiquity
toldinstone
A good way to find more, pull that thread, is to see which other YouTube channels these channels follow.
More recommendations:
Miniminuteman (history/debunking viral claims)
Ancient Americas (video essays about various pre-contact societies in the Americas)
Time Team (filming archaeologists as they excavate a site)
A Brush With Bekah (demonstrations of historical pigment use, plus education about why it's toxic AF)
Google debunkers unite!
Seconding Max Miller. For history I would also like to recommend Timeghost. I suspect that most people interested in the world wars already know, but for those who don't; they've done both WWI and WWII week by week, with deep dives into big events (including a 24-hour D-Day documentary) and a big focus on the human cost of war. I cannot recommend them enough to anyone interested in recent history!
For military history also Animarchy and if you like a touch of weirdness, Lazerpig.
History in Taberna is also great.
And Stefan Milo.
And How to Drink, when the episodes are more history focused.
Another good food history one is OTR On the Road (got to the naming game late, I guess)
Usually when its ai voice you need to switch the audiochannel.
My YouTube feed is 9/10 in English and for some reason YouTube tries to force German ai voice on me :(
Install the 'YouTube No Translation' extension to get rid of it, it's so incredibly annoying. Insane that Google still can't fathom bilingual people existing 🙄
The amount of extensions that I need to have to make YouTube a usable experience again istg
They prolly took US-Americans as a standard lol
Possibly true.
Lately, Youtube decided it would be a great idea to automatically translate every video into every language, so that people can watch videos from other languages without any barrier. A good idea in theory, maybe, but they implemented it by replacing the original creator's voice with an AI-voiced AI translation (without the creator's consent, of course) ... and the technology is far from good enough to accomplish that well.
There’s always Extra History! https://youtube.com/@extrahistory
years and years of back catalog to catch up on if you’re looking to kill several dozen hours
They maintain playlists to organize the back catalog which is an easy way to enjoy them.
This but for porn
Respect for using the "Le Me" format.... It's an older code but it checks out.
Yeah, but i got confused on the first panel and thought they had mangled Lemmy, before i remembered Le Me.
Lemmy was foretold... we just didn't know... 🫣
as long as the actual content is human created, a tts voice isn't that bad. some content creators are just not comfortable/confident enough to do the narration themselves
I'm sick of all the extremely shitty formulaic "Sci slop" channels with illustration mas by Chatgpt
Star Wars: the slop machine strikes back
i only watch history videos that either 3+ years old or from a youtuber i have some basic level of trust
I watch history videos to fall asleep, think I've found 10 channels now that isn't ai slop. I'm always very skeptical when I click on a video from someone I don't know. It's annoying as hell
here's two historians I enjoy, you may as well:
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