Grayjay - Follow Creators, Not Platforms
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Grayjay is a unique media application that revolutionizes the relationship between content creators and their audience. Our app democratizes the content delivery process, shifting the focus from platforms to creators themselves.

Watched Louis Rossman today, and he’s part of the team behind a new app for watching online video content - not just youtube, but nebula, peertube, twitch and more.

adblock already integrated, works amazingly with a quick test on my end - it’s an app in the Lemmy spirit

(it’s got a paid model similar to winrar, you don’t have to pay - but they do want you to - opensource and all)

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
    134·
    1 year ago

    Sadly it’s for the large part the recommendation algorithm that I’m on YouTube for. Most of the videos I watch are from people I’m not subscribed to.

    • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
      215·
      1 year ago

      I’ve always wondered if people like you existed! Fascinating.

      Not criticizing you, just personally I don’t want any recommendation algos in any of my media.

      • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
        171·
        1 year ago

        Yeah people have mixed opinions about that, but atleast in my case YouTube’s recommendations does a really good job at finding content I’m interested in. It just needs some training for it to do a good job. When there’s something I’m not interested in, I just flag it as “not interested” and then that stuff dissapears and is replaced with something else.

        • SlikPikker@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Interesting- It’s really bad for me!

          It always keeps suggestion the same few things, and things from the channels I’m already subscribed to. Videos I’ve already watched often get in there, and it’s very rare I get suggestions for relevant creators.

        • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Oh yeah it works great, I just don’t like how the algo feels like it’s trying to trick me into watching as long as possible. I enjoy the things I subscribe to but I don’t need YouTube to take up any more of my time.

      • DudeDudenson@lemmings.worldEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        I don’t agree, you need a way to discover new stuff (akin to going to /all). What I do hate is how they don’t give you the option to do anything but that. Or they give the option but it’s incredibly annoying so you don’t use it. Like you can’t trust YouTube to show you the content from the people you’re subscribed to. You can’t trust them to even show their content on the homepage of the channel if you want to be sure you didn’t miss anything interesting you have to go channel by channel clicking in the videos and live tabs for anything the algorithm might deem not worthy

        • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
          32·
          1 year ago

          You could not force me at gunpoint to go to r/all lol but I see your point. I just like to be more intentional about it.

      • HotChocoBum@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        I couldn’t live without my Spotify recommendations. Being able to listen to new stuff everyday is so important to me.

        • Corgana@startrek.websiteEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I get it. My Spotify algorithm was exceptionally good at sending me stuff that was basically just “diet everything else in my library”. Hardly anything ever new or challenging. Most of my new interesting music comes to me these days from friends and the radio, and song IDing anything that catches my ear while out and about.

          I suppose I do like Spotify auto-playlists for when I need consistent background Muzak or a “chill beats to study to” vibe. But the algo is just too “good” if that makes sense.

      • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        I follow way to many creators to have a sensible subscription feed, especially when I only watch some videos from some channels. If there were tiered subscriptions, I’d use them more. But right now I only use subscriptions for my tier 1.

      • JokeDeity@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m the same way, I watch (hate to admit) hours of YouTube every day. I do subscribe to a lot of people, but only after I’ve seen several of their videos and enjoyed them. Primarily I refresh the homepage and see if anything peeks my interest. In my personal opinion YouTube has one of the best algorithms, generally showing me a good mix of stuff I’m interested in (with addons and whatnot to hide the bullshit and recommended MSM garbage). Conversely Instagram and Facebook have some of the consistently worst algorithms, but I think Facebook is getting better about it, Instagram however NEVER shows me ANYTHING I could ever possibly care about and usually actively get annoyed by.

    • shoe@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I was pleasantly surprised to see that it still carries that over! My Home feed (not subscriptions) has plenty of videos from channels I’m not subscribed to