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What are your favorite (Youtube) video's/documentaries of all time that you can watch again and again? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Thunder@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me: 1.) Cicada 3301 - Lemmino [17:53]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2O7blSSzpI

2.) Why gravity is NOT a force - Veritasium [17:33]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU

3.) The cost of Concordia - Internet Historian [48:48]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh9KBwqGxTI

4.) Fast inverse square root - Nemean [20:08]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8u_k2LIZyo

5.) The dark side of the Silk road - Barely Sociable [1:14:45]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpMP6Nh3FvU

Sorry, i'm a nerd. If you are not: only watch no. 3; it's funny.

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[–] Jakylla@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, I think this can be interesting to some of you

There is a Non-profit organisation based in Swiss, that aims to evaluate the quality of Youtube videos, and generates global recommendations from that: tournesol.app

Currently, there is about 25000 videos included (~50% are in French, ~40% in English, 10% other) at the top of English recommendations we can find Kurzgesagt, Science4All, ~~John Oliver~~ LastWeekTonight

If you like to give your opinion, please come by !

This works like that:

Paste the link to two youtube videos, one on the left, the other on the right
Move cursors from left (meaning you prefer the left video) to right (if you prefer the right one instead)
Confirm to update the global recommendations

Pros: The recommendation algorithm used, 100% Open sourced and developed by universities, said to be mathematically safe against a number of risks (strategic voting, bots attacks...) and "more representative to public opinion than commonly used polling methods"

Cons: The current low number of users (recommendations are pretty biased towards living healthly and reducing carbon footprint, for the moment, not a lot of entertainment yet)

Note that I'm not affiliated not part of the associative, I'm only a user of Tournesol, comparing videos from time to time to improve global rankings