Inspired by this post but the other way around. Which channels (any subject) do you think have stayed true to their beginnings and are still worth watching today?
My pick would be Gamers Nexus.
DC Rainmaker
ZeFrank. After a long gap in videos he’s back even better
his poster has been on my wall for like 10 years, appreciate that dude
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In a Nutshell - Kurzgesagt
Their videos all have clickbait titles nowadays, really annoying. Wish they would actually write what the video is about on them
I think they’ve really started to go downhill lately. Mostly clickbait and miscorrelation in their recent stuff.
In a Nutshell is often too simplified. They often present fringe hypothesis as widely accepted scientific theories.
Then again, they’ve always done that, so their quality has stayed the same.
I think the main issue with Kurtzgesagt is that it is an entrance to a deep science YouTube rabbit hole that will make you unable to enjoy Kurtzgesagt anymore…
Cross-instance linking is a mess. You linked to an ad for your mobile app, which links to a kbin instance, which links back to lemmy.world… The app page devotes most of its space to download links while kbin demands the viewer log in before it will show them anything.
Technology Connections are great, but this doesn’t feel very connected.
Trying to get a correct URL to change it but I literally can’t. Any idea? :/
Edit: Changed Voyager settings and now I can share the original. Please let me know of it’s ok now
Op should have used threadiverse.link, or the home instance of the content, both of which are options in Voyager. The voyager link is primarily for sending to non-lemmy users.
My Voyager app only seems to offer the vger.to link. It’s a recent change I’m not happy about.
Ah shit really?! Mine still has all the options. I get Voyager from F-Droid, not sure if that makes any difference, maybe my version is slightly out of date? Either way, seems like a shitty change, which will probably end up getting reversed.
Mine is version 2.41.0, obtained from F-Droid.
To be fair, it could be some kind of user error – maybe the option does exist, but I’m not seeing it for some reason – but I don’t really think so.
Edit: Ah! It’s a setting! Settings →General → Other → Share Links. Mine is set to "Voyager App (vger.to), but there are also the other options you mentioned, as well as “ask” (which is presumably what yours is set to).
I’m pretty sure vger.to is the default (perhaps for new installs – I changed phones relatively recently), which is unfortunate, since I definitely didn’t change that setting.
Brill, thanks for figuring this out.
Thank you for sharing, I had no idea this was a setting! That makes it a lot easier to get the other links.
The most ridiculous thing about ‘vger.to’ links is that Voyager itself can’t open them.
What do you mean?
Just doesn’t open them, does nothing and shows an error message. Despite having created those links.
That sounds like a bug. Please let me know next time, a screen recording would be very helpful! 🙏
Tom Scott with amazing places & things you might not know.
Ayoo. Another Tom Scott fan. Rad!
Love his videos. Each one had so much passion and thought put into them
I am about to cross a road
I’m off to the Arctic for three weeks
But he stopped making videos. I’d say that’s a significant drop in quality.
He placed the main channel on hold, but has still continued to produce content. He has an extraordinary game show in podcast format that shares very unique trivia called Lateral. He is also in the post-production phase of a new run of videos featuring a big road-trip, according to his newsletter. He also occasionally still makes new series of Technical difficulties.
Or simplify taking a stand that he wasn’t willing to go down the click bait path the algorithm pushes for. I haven’t found another comment for a channel I agree with here yet
Actually, 3Blue1brown and PBS science videos (minus space) are pretty great too
what about pbs space time?
Yeah, good question. I can’t remember why I went off it. There is definitely some good content. I think he just went have a patch of being really excited about multiverse and that’s just a bit too strong an interpretation in my mind to go push that hard. It might have been something else. Its been a while
Seriously wtf space time
pbs spacetime, discusses astrophysics, and discovery on the universe, if you a nerd for physics that is.
No I used to watch it, I just didn’t think k it was very high quality compared to the other PBS projects. So much speculation!
oh yea, and it would be more prudent to use an actual physicist, astronomer, astrophysicist on the show it would improve the quality.
Smarter Everyday (space, slow mo, manufacturing), PBS Space Time (space, quantum physics, astrophysics…), Xisumavoid (Minecraft Let’s Play), Magnus Midtbø (Climber), Asianometry (technology, manufacturing, science history)
Smarter Everyday has only gotten better and better as he has grown in notoriety. Fantastic content, and not beholden to sponsors.
except him spouting more and more religious shit
Absolutely, he’s getting access to places and hardware that keep pushing the envelope, but still remains that very humble human being he always was. He’s so kind to everybody working in the factory tours. Absolutely recommend. The only thing i’m not a big fan of is the content he produces with weapons, but that’s a cultural thing, i get it.
you may enjoy Steve Mould. British guy also doing sciency stuff. while he does do sponsorships it’s usually like kiwico.
I do, as well as Matt Parker (and Tom Scott but he doesn’t qualify for this thread anymore, unfortunately)
We seem to have a large overlap in our Venn Diagrams ^^
ooh I don’t know Matt Parker. I’ll look them up after work!
he’s adjacent to Numberphile (also an excellent channel), Hannah Fry, James Grime, very good educators
Except for all the American Armed Forces stuff
Almost all of the smarter everyday videos I wish were 1/10 of the size, or two videos (learning vs something glittery that he’s distracted by). I’m glad that he’s there for people that enjoy that though
The various PBS YouTube channels almost never miss.
Some of the best science content on the internet and explains everything in layman’s terms.
For higher level science:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas
Puts up conferences and interviews of some of the top scientific minds on the planet.
PBS is awesome and I donate to them whenever I can. So should everyone.
I love arte for francophone stuff, public broadcasting is the best
PBS spacetime is the only channel I watch at 1x
And even that’s too fast sometimes :D
Tom Scott for sure kept video quality high and standard over the years. I miss him.
Agreed, but he decided to bow out when it started getting too big. So good on him.
Starting getting too big? I thought he said he needed a break. That’s not necessarily the same, or has he said more since then?
He went on a ‘sabbatical’ from youtube. He didn’t quit making content, his game show podcast Lateral and newsletter are still running.
RedLetterMedia
They used to do the Mr. Plinkett reviews and still publish a bunch of videos of reviewing movies that are very, very good (and entertaining) and other movie related content. While there are no more Mr. Plinkett reviews, they have maintained the same high quality of the channel for the last 15+ years. They just don’t publish content as often. It’s down to once or twice a week now.
They’re hack frauds! But they’ve always been consistent hack frauds, so it’s all good 😁
To be honest, the score is based on how hot Jay still is after all these years. Even after the Uggo Jay stage. I’d marry that dude.
Fair enough, but you keep your no good hands off Rich Evans, y’hear? 😁
Somehow, Rich has actually become more attractive as well. Maybe it’s just me…
Hands off, tho. Jay is still mine, lol.
😁
Even his no effort November videos are high quality.
I thought no effort november was technology connections thing?
I know bps space did one as well XD
Oh yeah, wrong channel.
Abroad in Japan, Gigguk, CdawgVA, Julien Bam. 2BoredGuys, Fern.
TheinfographicsShow channel is consistently good, entertaining and educational.
Here’s a range:
Sebastian Lague - game dev and software dev exploration
Pitch Meeting - film summary in short satire comedy form
Sick Animation - fucked up animations
Will McDaniel - comedy sketches using practical effects, puppets and fx makeup
DefendTheHouse - gaming myth busters and community content
FunWithGuru - showcasing easter eggs in games
Pitch Meeting started strong and continuously improved over the years, but recently he has been doing reposts because that is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Seriously though, home he overcomes the burnout or focuses more attention on pitch meetings as I don’t watch his other bits.
He’s recently been less active due to an illness and then death in the family. He talked about it in a community post. Either way, I’m glad he found a pace that better fits him.
His father died, and he’s Canadian, so he has actual bereavement leave.
Oh that sucks!
https://youtube.com/@explainingcomputers
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https://youtube.com/@christopherbarnattDOT COM
https://youtube.com/@mothersbasement
I only listen to this one guy for anime reccomendations.
https://youtube.com/@colinfurze
Never has a lull, always good.
https://youtube.com/@chemicalforce
Pretty toxic chemistry
https://youtube.com/@weirdexplorer
If you don’t really care about exotic fruit adventures, at least watch his feature length Nutmeg documentary it’s most excellent.
Boomer shooter comedic…retrospectives? I like him.
https://youtube.com/@mrcarlsonslab
He repairs very old electronics and is soothing to listen to.
I don’t even really care about motorcycles, but their video editing skills are incredible.
https://youtube.com/@lowbuckgarage
Accurate, he will do everything possible to avoid spending money on a project.
https://youtube.com/@styropyro
Mad scientist.
https://youtube.com/@casuallyexplained
His sense of humor doesn’t get old for me.
https://youtube.com/@thecodyreeder
Mad scientist.
Taught me more about language than any teacher in my life ever did.
I find a lot of obscure old games to play via this guy and his videos are high effort.
https://youtube.com/@posymusic
Every video is a work of art. It doesn’t matter what the subject is, you’ll be entranced.
https://youtube.com/@techtangents
Bitrot necromancy enthusiast.
https://youtube.com/@littlevmills
A Canadian who makes high effort metal music covers.
https://youtube.com/@joel-haver
He just likes to make movies. I like his movies. A lot.
https://youtube.com/@theslowmoguys
It’s in the name!
Mad scientist.
https://youtube.com/@evenflow2907
High effort vehicular brainrot.
Have a good day!
A lovely weird Canadian artist I adore.
Never has a lull, always good.
Still waiting for him to connect the secret tunnel to his bloody bunker though. THAT WAS THE BLOODY POINT OF IT. But nooo, he got too into the idea of an underground garage. Which is, in fairness, very cool.
Im pretty sure its all connected to the house now
The garage, workshop, and house are connected, but he hasn’t finished going from the workshop to the bunker. His ADHD ass got distracted by something more interesting to him, meanwhile it’s killing me that he still can’t get to his cool bunker through the tunnel.
That’s a long list. Glad to see FortNine made it, because I was going to mention them if someone else didn’t already do it. I am into motorcycles, and no one else in that space has better camera work or editing. Usually good info too, although some of Ryan’s takes get controversial
I swear I can hear his voice. “Explaining computers… dot com.”
Ups for styropyro. Man just gets more unhinged by the year, it’s beautiful.
You know things are getting insane when he’s starts bragging about breaking Photonicinduction records.
