• starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    9 hours ago

    You wanted to find “KSP ssto tutorial?” Are you sure you wouldn’t rather rewatch a Technology Connections video you watched last week?

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    16 hours ago

    It’s like it just gives up after about 8 results. “These 8 results don’t contain what you want? I give up. Here, just watch one of these videos instead.”

    Screw you, just show me the rest of the results, I swear it’s in the top 30 results.

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    17 hours ago

    A trick to get better results (I.e. without suggestions etc) is to add “before:2026” TP your search string. This filters out a lot of the garbage, and leaves you with search results alone. I somehow feel the need to do it most times now, if I’m searching for something very specific.

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    I was trying to search for something inside a specific channel the other day. The results were so random that I wasn’t confident I was even seeing all of the videos that had the word I typed in. Doesn’t help that it’s full on chaos sort with no option of any other sorting method. Complete trash.

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    Searching/surfing YouTube is like searching/surfing Imgur. It’s a site for content hosting so you can link from other places. You have to go to online communities to find links to good videos.

    There are good channels that are worth subscribing to, but going to YouTube directly is like trudging though a swamp.

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    23 hours ago

    Invidious Piped Materialious GrayJay FreeTube NewPipe PipePipe Clipious LibreTube

    so many ways 2 avoid getting personalized garbage results, and yet

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      18 hours ago

      Honestly, I only use Freetube and still get about 3 relevant results, then a whole bunch of unrelated bs / seemingly random playlists and shorts. After that there are relevant results again.

      Still, these apps are great recommendations.

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    I can search for the litteral title in quotes and not find it. Have to ise duckduck go smh