comrade invidio.us is here to protect you from personalized YouTube feeds

Yeah,YouTube, Facebook, Instagram; they’ve all become captured cesspits.

Something I’ve noticed is that if you try to have a leftist comm on any platform besides for ones like these you get descended upon by a horde of reactionaries with enough lead in their blood to arm a war.

If you click/tap on the three dots next to one of his videos, one of the options says “do not recommend channel” I suggest you click/tap on that

if you disable view history, they remove the front page, which is a win imo.

also I’ve seen people from multiple countries complaining about similar things, getting recommendations from far right media even tho they are lefties, I’ve watching mostly left content since 2021, now and then i get recommended far right outlet and personalities even after blocking then, while channels that i subscribe don’t send notifications.

yt and any other imperialist monopoly were always like that, but ot has gotten considerably worse lately, so something important is happening and we are not seeing it.

I use freetube on desktop and grayjay on mobile.

Greyjay will also read from multiple sources, like patreon and nebula, and now including Bilibili, which is interesting to see content from. I think they have like a dozen sources that they are compatible with now.

Both have had constant access to YouTube for over a year now. YouTube likes kicking off those third parties…

Freetube will fall back to invidious instance(s) if YouTube fails to load. So even if YouTube is messing with them, you get something. You can turn that off if it gives you trouble.

It’s a pain to manage my subscriptions across two different systems. But they both read and write to newpipe subscription streams, So I can export and import between them that way. Oh, and newpipe is another option for mobile. I’ve had problems with them, they tend to get blocked a lot. But I haven’t used them recently, they might be better now.

sudo bash -c "echo '0.0.0.0 www.youtube.com' >> /etc/hosts"

ez win

What’s up with Falun Gong anyway? I see Shen Yun ads all over the place now, which is weird, but it seems like everything I see about Falun Gong is heavily propagandized. They seem to have pretty awful beliefs and are censured by the CCP, and are maybe tied to fascist groups and are maybe a cult that believes their leader is a literal god? Anybody have trustworthy reading material?

This reminds me of my younger years, YouTube kept recommending me China Uncensored. They kept feeding me anti-China propaganda, I actually believed them, that the Chinese government is somehow oppressive. But then by the sheer absurdity of their lies, I began to doubt their words.

Youtube is usually pretty good in recommending me leftist content, but every now and then some bullshit like you’re describing shows up to me too, sometimes all the recommended to the side of a given video is full of right wing bullshit. I have the impression social media in general is going to shit. Twitter is full of fascists, Instagram (and Tik Tok to some extend) have some of the most vitriolic comments you’ll see, and are probably being infested with fascists too.

Two of my youtube accounts have been banned, one for posting a pro-Hamas song and another for simply having an unlisted playlist of anti-Israel music

Edit: Why am I getting downvoted? I’m not being sarcastic, I’m lamenting about Youtube’s censorship.