Do people just not use the YouTube subscription feed?

I consistently hear people on YouTube complain that the subscribe button doesn’t do anything for viewers, now that channel notifications are controlled by the bell. But it does do something: it puts the videos from that channel in your subscription feed, which is readily accessible on all versions of YouTube. So why do people act like it doesn’t exist? I think it’s super convenient, especially if you’re subscribed to a ton of channels and don’t want your notifications feed flooded with new videos.

TheBat,
@TheBat@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t

Gnubyte,

Creators both put out so much dogshit that I have to cherry pick and also my sub feed doesn’t account for actually good content.

So yeah I stopped paying attention to it. Even as a YouTube premium member.

The peak of garbage was when YouTube enforced a 10 minute watch time for max profit. They rolled it back but dude there used to be 8 minutes of fluff for a 2 minute video.

InFerNo,

I don’t subscribe to anything. I search what i want to see, sometimes dabble a bit with the recommended feed until i search for the next thing.

Widowmaker_Best_Girl,

Dude I’ve had that exact same thought. Like, yeah, the subscription is where everything is. I never use the regular home page, my bookmark for YouTube goes to my subscription.

There’s zero need for me to use the bell. I never understood why people complained about videos not showing up, etc.

CannaVet,

TIL

I’ll admit it lol

sheilzy,

I use the subscription feed. Definitely don’t use the bell. Bell is so cumbersome where you get a email for a new video, then you get that pop-up preview on your browser, and push notifications on your mobile device. Too much for me, especially since I’m at a point where I subscribe to 600 channels or so, which makes it hard to play favorites. That’s sort of what the bell is for I guess, determining whose content you value the most.

threeduck,

SIX HUNDRED CHANNELS. I have maybe 50, and of that most of them are defunct comedy channels like Derrick Comedy or David Mitchell’s soap box.

sheilzy,

I guess I’ve been acculumating subscriptions for a long time. I do occasionally unsubscribe when a channel goes defunct or I lose interest or whatever, but I don’t do it regularly. I had been a videographer and broadcasting student as a teenager so I guess I wanted to find a lot of inspiration.

macintosh,

I watch YouTube way too much to ever be satisfied by any form of subscription feed. On places like Twitter all I want is the feed of people I follow, but not so much on video platforms.

TurboDiesel,
@TurboDiesel@lemmy.world avatar

I use it, but I loathe having to scroll past random text posts, pics, and shorts before getting to content I actually subscribe to.

tearow,

Personally I remember when the main page used to be the user’s subscription feed. After they changed it, I just updated my bookmark and continued to land on the subscription feed. At some point everyone else seems to have forgotten that that happened and started pushing the bell.

isame,

One thing I’ll say though: They started making shorts take up a whole row and I’m not happy about it. I don’t really watch shorts unless they’re Hank Green’s, and then it depends on my mood. I’m on YouTube for YouTube videos, not TikTok videos

Widowmaker_Best_Girl,

If you have ublock origin there’s a script you can put in that automatically hides YouTube shorts from your subscription page.

Hildegarde,

Them putting shorts in their own row made it much easier. You don’t even need to find a script, just right click on the shorts and block element.

Works great, until they change the page again.

isame,

Same here. My bookmark goes to the subs page.

ItzLiftin,

I don’t use the subscriptions feed that much, i often just watch something i search for or something that was recomended to me. But i still don’t want to get notifications from the channels i subscribe to, so i have notifications disabled for Youtube.

I still see how the notification bell can be useful for people that want to get notifications from some channels only.

Rentlar,

I get too many Notifs from the YouTube app for channels I don’t want. I use Newpipe Subscriptions, I can refresh feeds from multiple channels whenever I choose.

baruchin,
@baruchin@lemmy.world avatar

Are you aware that you can fine tune notifications on YouTube app? I don’t get any notification that I don’t want. Actually, I get none.

Clothing8727,

But with newpipe you can have your subscription feed without a Google account.

That alone is a pretty damn good perk if you as me.

normonator,

I don’t rely on it at all because it likes to omit things I assume it thinks I won’t like. Plenty of times I’ll see a new video from a subscribed creator on the home tab to head over to subscriptions where I can’t find it but see previous ones.

If it worked that would be great, instead I use third party apps to manage it and would just stop using YouTube if those tools were unavailable.

WarmSoda,

Yeah, I always use the sub feed but it’s a mess. It’s about as good as the Facebook feed for finding new videos from channels I’ve subscribed to.

HelloHotel,
@HelloHotel@lemmy.world avatar

Use newpipe or simmlar, or a list of channel links to check back on every so often

HelloHotel,
@HelloHotel@lemmy.world avatar

Newpipe or some of the other clients like it fetch youtube for channel data directly and aggrogate into a feed on your computer, verry clean way of doing it. Channel uploads by date is the last thing not AI controlled

Phegan,

I had no idea people didn’t use the subscription fees. It’s the only way I engage with YouTube

stupidillusion,

If you block enough channels the default suggestions aren’t bad at all. I found a few channels I wouldn’t have known about that way.

That said, I spend about a minute looking at the suggestions and then dip to my subscriptions page.

derioderi0,

My interaction with YouTube is pretty much the search bar at the top. I generally only go to YouTube when there is something specific that I want to watch/listen to: a specific song or video, etc. So there’s little reason for me to subscribe to anything.

SasquatchBanana,

Have an extension just to automatically redirect to my subscription page the moment i type in the youtube homepage. I haven’t seen the youtube front page in almost a decade and it is so worth it.

ExcessivelySalty,

I use an extension called PocketTube to manage my subscriptions into categories. I’m sure there’s a better way, but it works for me.

HelloHotel,
@HelloHotel@lemmy.world avatar

Newpipe does the same on mobile, ill have to try pocket tube, does it need a (yt?) account?

Durotar,

I used to rely on it, but with live streams and shorts it now looks like a junkyard. Now that I’ve moved to Piped that has filtering by content type (videos, streams, shorts) I find myself using it again.

OceanSoap,

I use it sparingly. All the subscriptions/bells/whatever generate too much spam from the channels.

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