The all feed on YouTube is completely useless now, so for those that only use the subscribed tab, what’s your favourite channels?
I’m liking the PBS channels, Ryan Georg and pitch meeting, stuff made here, animagraffs, map men, practical engineering, tasting history, and couple of more but kinda similar theme.
Zeteo, because Mehdi Hasan is the finest debator, interviewer, journalist, and political commentator of our time
Liltenhead, for Space Station 14 videos
Technology Connections, for all kinds of awesome deep dives into all kinds of subject matter like heat pumps, dishwashers, heat pumps, electric vehicles, old media formats, heat pumps, and heat pumps
US Chemical Safety Board (USCSB) for outstanding videos detailing industrial accidents
Gamers Nexus for exposing corporate bullshit and surveillance, and great reviews of PC gaming hardware
Red Means Recording for fun and informative videos on all things electronic music and a dash of political commentary, and foxes
Comedy/entertainment:
Red letter media
Garron
Mst3k
Old horror TV show and radio show channels there’s a bunch like channel 42
Science/math/tech:
Lindsay Nikole (paleontology)
Gutsick gibbon (Paleo anthro)
Louis Rossman (tech, FOSS, software/hardware legislature)
3blue1brown (maths)
Simon roper (linguistic anthro)
Guitar:
Sor hands (classical guitarist)
Dean lamb (tech death)
Philip McKnight (hardware reviews and news)
High z productions (reviews and music/entertainment)
Ola Englund (chug)
Philosophy/debate:
Allegedly Ian (philosophy debate)
Dr blitz (physicist debates)
Jon Cohen (philosophy debate)
Off topic but I guess it might be useful. YouTube channel RSS is
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id<channel_id>, or with gnu sed:echo '<channel_url>' | sed 's|https://www//.youtube/.com/channel/|https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id|'A few more that haven’t been mentioned yet:
Alton Brown - cooking mad scientist
How Money Works - how the rich bastards of the world are screwing the rest of us over
Adam Savage’s Tested - the Mythbusters guy’s channel for building things, talking with other makers, videos on movie props, models, and similar items
Camping With Steve for wholesome stealth camping as well as some quirky and conventional camping. Hand Tool Rescue for slight nonsense simple restoration videos for old hand tools. Any Austin for chill deep dives into parts of video game design that are often overlooked. Channel5 for man on the street style journalism with looks into alternative American cultures and subsects. Internet Comment Etiquette for poignant and hilarious examinations of Internet culture. Just to make a few
deleted by creator
Here’s a bit of a mixed list of good channels indicative of my interests, in no particular order, and excluding traditional media orgs and stuff like bands (though as an exception I’ll shout out tiny desk by NPR):
Technology connections - video essays about household tech
Techmoan - retro AV gear and adjacent stuff
Nostalgia nerd - video essays about retro games
Cathode ray dude - video essays on old video production and industrial tech, and adjacent stuff
LGR (+ Blerbs) - classic PC video games and hardware
Retro bytes - more video essays about retro games
Hbomberguy - video essays about games and politics
Philosophy tube - video essays about philosophy
Evan edinger - mix of topics (often transit, language, travel, differences between US/UK) about an American who’s lived in the UK and Europe
AudioPilz - retro audio gear
Ringway Manchester - amateur radio
Jago Hazzard - trains and transit, particularly London
William Osman (+ 2nd channel) - unhinged engineer currently trying to farm
Kurzgusagt - edutainment about science, health and philosophy
Binging with babish - cooking
Bigclivedotcom - electronic/electrical engineering
Macho Nacho productions - retro game console mods
Modern vintage gamer - retro game emulation and adjacent stuff
Slow news day - topical UK news analysis
Chris Spargo - short documentaries about random oddities
Tom Scott (+ the technical difficulties) - currently visiting various interesting sites around the UK, general documentary content
Pad Chennington - video essays about obscure music genres and trends
Linus Boman - typography and design
Humano Studios - vinyl DJ sets
James Hoffman - coffee documentaries and reviews
Notjustbikes - public transit and urban planning
The Serial Port - 80s/90s era Telco and ISP tech
Clabretro - similar stuff, maybe a bit more stuff about old servers
Abroad in Japan - travel content and entertainment for Japan hosted by a British expat
Rion Ishida - walking vlogs in Japan focusing on travel
Nilered - science experiment edutainment
Defunctland - abandoned theme park video essays
Adam Ragusea - cooking and health
Lockpicking Lawyer - guy picks into every lock in front of him
Gary’s Economics - video essays about why everything is going to shit (economics)
Adrian’s digital basement - retro tech repair
How to drink - cocktails and their history
VWestlife - more retro tech repair
Adam Martyn - British broadcast media history
J.J. McCollough - pop culture video essays
Summoning Salt - speed running video essays
Wendover Productions (+ half as interesting and jet lag the game) - video essays about logistics and adjacent topics. HAI is more short content and general topics
MattKC - retro game reverse engineering
Self sufficient me - gardening
Ogmios - pov vlog with a fun voiceover
Level1Techs - more tech content
Ambiguous amphibian - game challenges
I think you’ll enjoy Physicsduck too ;)
Great list; I recognize a few, but not many, and the topics covered are weirdly aligned with my own interests. Thanks!
Tom Scott - He is back with new videos every week: !tomscott@lemmy.zip
Funny shorts:
Farming while beige
Bobby Fingers.
The Spiffing Brit.
Any Austin.
Some More News.
Ryan George.
Space Ice.
Bobby fingers
Casual Geographic has great animal content, and is just a really funny likable guy.
Parkrose Permaculture for US leftist politics.
Attorney Mark Lopez for how to deal with cops (also US)
Accounting Rescue with Lisa if you have accounting questions
Fire Department Chronicles for funny medical skits
Former Black Panther Speaks: the origin of Standards Not Force, which is the spiritual successor to the Black Panthers.
T1J for interesting analysis of random popular media.
Chris and Jack for funny skits.
Mina Le for cultural analysis in media, particularly fashion and appearance related.
I also follow a ton of channels related to making and selling art, but i’m not going to list those unless anyone requests it.
Elephant graveyard
I like Not Just Bikes
Fortnine: allegedly bikes but the videos are works of art.
Bad Obsession Motorsport: a new Project Binky video at least every 6 months!
RRC Restoration: a Scotsman doing up old bikes and cars.
Jeffiot: long form internet investigations of silly things that are fascinating.
New Yorkshire Workshop: a man doing up a house. No commentary, just amazing skills and great filming.
Red Letter Media
LPN Network / Last Podcast on the Left
