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I very rarely manually subscribe or unsubscribe now, it just picks up on what I watch generally.
Resist the algorithms, we must
When subscribing does nothing and changing the bell too.
I have some Youtubers who make a video a month or once a year.
I have to follow them on discord to get the new video because youtube won't show it to me even though I have selected the highest notifications only for them.
When subscribing does nothing
what? You have a subscribe feed. use it.
Have that as my bookmark for the site. Made the experience way better
As someone else already pointed out - yes, subscribing does do something because you can (and should) use the Subscription feed (which is below the Home and Shorts feeds on the left hand menu). This allows you to curate your own content rather than rely on algorithms. Which is not to say you can't or shouldn't use the Home feed - chances are you will run into new things that you find you like. But as it is right now, over 90%% of all video views on YouTube come from the Home feed meaning the vast majority of users are influenced by opque algorithms.
I believe most people don't even know about the Subscription feed even though its right there
My subscription feed is overloaded with Youtubers I subscribed to but don't want to watch all of their videos.
But that is probably an issue on my side.
Use the subscribe feed, not the home feed to watch your videos.
It shows your subscriptions in reverse chronological order.
Resist the algorithms
Yeah I just switched to Piped/Tubular/Grayjay; you sub to who you want; no recommendations. IF someone is good enough to watch, they'll collab with their friends and you can grow that way.
The best part is, I run out of content, and I go do other things.
Really? I found the algorithm had really gone to shit maybe 3 or 4 years ago. Half my recommendations were stuff I'd already seen and another quarter were shorts.
Since then I'm fully subscription based.