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.
Ahoy. video game documentarian. Makes 1 or 2 very high quality videos a year and has done so for years.
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)
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
Smarter Everyday has only gotten better and better as he has grown in notoriety. Fantastic content, and not beholden to sponsors.
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
except him spouting more and more religious shit
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 spacetime is the only channel I watch at 1x
And even that’s too fast sometimes :D
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
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.
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.
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! 🙏
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.
Thank you for sharing, I had no idea this was a setting! That makes it a lot easier to get the other links.
Brill, thanks for figuring this out.
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
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.
Accursed Farms, twoodfrd, Rummy’s Corner, Grimbeard, RedLetterMedia, Summoning Salt, Zaric Zhacaron, OneShortEye.
RedLetterMedia is so good.
Its just reaction content with mild reviews of movies. But I love that they’re reacting to media so old in most cases that it doesn’t feel gross.
I have subscribed to a few skateboard channels that I have followed for a long time. Not because of the tricks, because quite frankly, these guys are not the best skaters, but they make good content for old skaters like myself who don’t care much about the latest tricks.
Ben Degros. Perhaps better known for his other channel The Vancouver Carpenter. Well, he’s also a skateboard product connoisseur, who can smell the difference between different presses of deck concave and wheel sizes.
Jon Bishop. An old fart from UK who started skating at an old age and walks through all the basics and thoughs of beginner and intermediate tricks.
And obviously: The Skate Nomad. Mike Boisvert. A (relatively) young Canadian dude who quit everything and set out to live the dream of skateboarding in every country in the world, while couch crashing at locals the entire way. It’s interesting to see the differences and similarities in cultures world wide from this perspective.
Cathode Ray Dude
Phil DeFranco is better than he used to be by a long shot. He’s getting senators and journalists in interviews for all manner of new related content. And he stopped with the enlightened centrism angle he had for a bit. Much more mature and level-headed.
I like PDS and watched for over a decade. but ive had to stop treating it like a news source. I feel his coverage is not informative unless you live under a rock and need a quick rundown of what’s happening. He oversimplifies to the point of being misleading definitively leaves out contrary info and makes way stronger claims than the evidence really supports. He knows his audience (me included) and spins the story for them and in reality its probably not him but his writing team.
His interviews with officials are still good.
I listen to him almost everyday after work
politics, reaction, influencer types are usually of lower quality than other non-political channels, most of them devolve into clickbait or reaction slop. plus its like watching cnn or fox in youtube format, no need if you already access the same political content from other social media platform. Youtube pushes heavily on politics into your feeds(even non-conservative content). i used to followed asian ytubers that give commentary/jokes on news , but when it comes to politics, they lean heavilya certain way, but was always able to play off of it and not in your face, overtime they became lazy and lean all the way in to it now, that it turned fans off, adding a little mysgoyny as well.
Primitive Technology. He started the whole “build a shelter on the woods” genre that has become so dumb, but his videos are still just as great as ever. No narration or music, just interesting experiments into basic technology like shelters, fire, lions, pottery, etc., all using only materials from the forest around his camp. Now he’s working on a way to make fire hot enough to smelt metal.
I’ve been watching him since he started, and he’s the only channel that I stop everything to watch when a new video drops.
If you’re interested in why he is doing what he is doing - I would highly suggest turning on the close captions. It was a game changer as someone that is entertained by infotainment!
Holy fuck
Oh, yeah, I discovered the captions long ago. Had to go back and watch all the old ones with the captions on.
Its a German channel, but I would throw Simplicissimus into the ring. They always had high quality content, and the quality of their videos is constantly rising.
They also have an English channel
Practical Engineering Gamer Nexus (for sure) Matt’s off road recovery Tested(Adamsavage) Startalk TrailMater GrizzlyandBear Overlanding Kirk Kreifles the Car Care Nut & Car Care Nut auto reviews Driver 61 Sarah-n-tuned Max Velocity (weather) Grind Hard Plumbing Throttle House AutoJeffReviews DrivingSportsTV
Tested got me through covid
Project Farm is still a go to for me. It’s not perfect but he does more than enough for me most of the time
Techmoan, if you are interested in old or weird tech.
If u have any interest in cars or engineering:
-Driving 4 answers -engineering explained -superfast matt
FortNine: both the content and the video quality are top notch.
TechnologyConnections is the only channel where you’ll waste an hour nerding out on washing machines, even if you don’t own one.
Louis Rossmann has been instrumental in the fight for right to repair in the US.Yeah i could list many more but you asked for one (and i already overran that), plus these are the ones that stand out to me.
fortnine noticeably dropped off in quality when they lost the original editor and moved out west… early videos are still gems tho!
I did notice Aneesh is missing, didn’t know it was due to moving.
I just find Lewis Rossman to be an incredibly irritating person. I appreciate what he’s doing but at a personal level I can’t stand him. He’s just very whiny.
Rossmann fights the good fight, but his two hour rambles could be a blog post instead
you’re not supposed to watch it on 0.25x speed
He also dramatizes for clicks.
Fortnine made a famous video about how motorcycle armor was a waste of time and front to back, the entire video is wrong and the comments from ER MDs back that up. Fuck Ryan.
+1 for technology connections. Who knew I could watch 3 hours about dishwashers and stay interested?
Rossman does good work but I wouldn’t call his videos “High Quality”
He’s like Gamers Nexus, very rambly and angry. If you like that vibe and just want a techy “Grinds my gears” ass rant channel to put on while you do anything else, he’s fine.
