The main channel I’m not seeing here already is plainly difficult productions. They do industrial disaster videos, as well as dam collapses, building collapses, and radiological disasters.
Copying from a different comment of mine:
Educational
- Atomic Frontier
- Captain Disillusion
- DSA (My city’s local chapter’s youtube)
- Kurzgesagt
- Philosophy Tube
- Scott Manely
- Technology Connections
Educational Adjacent
- Jim Browning
- Primitive Technology
- Sam O’Nella Academy
Hobby Projects
- Code bullet
- Colinfurze
- Project KegRocket
- Stuff Made Here
- The Bibites: Digital Life
- Tom Stanton
- Works By Design
- Zach Freedman
Gaming
- Doshdoshington
- EthosLab
- Grian
- Hazardish
- Matt Lowne
- Michael Hendriks
- Project Incursus Gaming
- Starship EVO
- Stratzenblitz75
Art
- Felix Colgrave
- The Sixth Door
- Worthikids
Misc
- Atomic Shrimp
- Brick Experiment Channel
- Hbomberguy
- Lyle Forever
- Two Gay Grandpas Travel
don’t use youtube
CrackerMilk. Feels like a fever dream
Got a few science and tech channels; Tech Ingredients - in depth breakdowns of semi advanced technology from the perspective of a guy that can explain every step, how to build it yourself it and how to modify it to be better, may be a lecturer or just a very knowledgeable engineer. (most recent vid was building an underground heatsink to turn an inefficient window aircon unit into an absolute beast of a cooler, channel has also made DIY Graphene and ultra reflective paint for passively cooling buildings)
AvE - ‘Good old uncle bumblefuck’ a guy that takes apart tools and goes through the good the bad and the ugly. Occasionally posts machining videos, often amusing breakdowns of cheap tools.
Bigclivedotcom - Scotsman that buys ebay electronics and shows the good the bad and the ugly of how they’re made/what will kill you if it gains a fault.
Acorn to Arabella; A climber with access to a few generations old woodland, hand builds a boat from a 1920s design, learns to sail and sets off on an adventure (currently out sailing, lots of very satisfying build videos such as melting lead over a bonfire and pouring a multi-tonne keel.
Still tech-y but more lighthearted; Nilered - Modern day equivalent of a mad scientist, has made alcohol from toiler paper, grape soda out of nitrile gloves and cherry soda out of tolulene.
William Osman - the most ADHD of adult neurodivergents, currently trying to make a farm in his back garden (where the ground is 90% sand) He runs Open Sauce, which is a technology and creator convention. Also wrote a tv show called Scare the Coyote
StyroPyro - another mad scientist but with lasers this time, builder of the macrowave - a microwave so overpowered it can melt tungsten and make plasma out of almost anything instantly. Sometimes goes storm chasing.
A tutorial on how to drink water
I like the second thought channel, Jessie Welles folk music, democracy now, Seth Meyers closer look, daily show, John Oliver and crayon capital
Here is a funny gaming PC that has its gpu sitting in a attached external compartment
https://youtu.be/ZTTBODgro8wTechnology connections
Boring history to sleep
Dime store adventures
Qxir
Peter Santanello
Ichabod Slice
Epimetheus
Justin Chase
I recommend turning the algorithm off and only watching what Lemmy tells you to.
Good idea! Your options are between linux kernel mailing list drama or linux Wayland issue tracker drama.
This is what I do
Simple Living Alaska, following a homestead couple that intersperses their adventures with their large garden.
We need to get off YouTube’s monopolistic dick
Agreed. Check out Grayjay: https://grayjay.app/ https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
It’s a client for following creators across platforms while the user retains control. YouTube is one of the platforms Grayjay can access but you don’t have to let YouTube play adverts, track you, etc. It lets users turn the screen off and keep playing audio, bypass intros or sponsored ads, download whole videos, and other quality of life features.
You can also avoid YouTube entirely and only stream from PeerTube, NewPipe, SoundCloud, etc. You just tap the plugins you want and it respects your choices.
It’s still under active development during an ongoing arms race with YouTube but I’ve been using it for over a year and have only encountered two bugs that kept me from using it. It’s been a refreshing experience overall and I find myself watching more of the stuff I care about, more meaningfully supporting the artists I care about, and disallowing Google to abuse those interactions.
I’m not affiliated with them in any way. Just a happy convert.
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Internet Today
800 Pound Gorilla
Thought Slime
The Charismatic Voice
