Asklemmy

I like casual gaming videos, and often watch Mr. A Game and QuinBoBin, particularly their Zelda videos.

I also enjoy a good analysis, so Cinema Therapy is my go-to.

I have young children in the house, so it can be hard to find entertaining videos that don't have bad language that I don't want parroted back to me.

Anton Petrov has a great channel if you are into science and space. He posts a video every day explaining new findings in a really approachable way.

I mostly just use it to find new music.

There's a couple of cooking channels I keep an eye on, a bit of tom scott and contrapoints/shaun/etc - but mainly just music.

No, I don't have or want spotify. I like music videos, and I like being able to easily skip through and sample fragments of songs, rather than just have them on in the background.

Mostly ASMR - it's how I get to sleep.

Also, Pitch Meeting, which I sometimes watch instead of the film.

This Old Tony, Abom, Tested (mostly just One Day Builds by Adam Savage), Wirtual, Isaac Arthur, CityNerd, Intelligence Squared debates, FloridaMan Diplomacy, Abom79

Okay so I’m a nerd. I didn’t get into YouTube until recently and I just watch storm chasers, airplanes taking off, and power washing/landscaping porn.

I watch a few, but the first worthy one that comes to mind is TBSkyen.

I would recommend ChrisFix on top of the recommendations already given. Excellent videos on simple car repairs using hand tools. Even if you don't own a car or have the need to fix one, I would still recommend watching some of his videos.

I watch LBRY (I use it directly and bypass odysee btw)

For youtube I proxy it through piped

Yeah youtube has massive amounts of good content. The only downside is that it's owned by google.

Some of my favs in alphabetical order:

Anton Fomenko

BeardMeatsFood

GeoWizard

I did a thing

Jet Lag: The Game

Joel Haver

Ludwig

Max Fosh

Modest Pelican

NFKRZ

RAINBOLT

Steve Wallis

STORROR

Tom Scott

Uri Tuchman

Xiaomanyc

Stefan Milo - Been really enjoying his videos "digging" into archaeology and pre-history.

Second Thought, First Thought, Our Changing Climate, Polymatter, Kurzgesagt, The Grayzone, Geopolitical Economy Report, Breakthrough News, Democracy Now.

I do yes as I also have a channel that I do videos for (my only income as I fund my own website without ads or 3rd party trackers). I do make my videos' ads skippable though. And yes my own browser blocks ads.

But the pleasantness, or lack thereof, comes down to a site's rules and moderation. The vast majority of people don't want to be aggravated, and they also don't really want to pay to use a website.

But scammers and clickbait are everywhere. I think a lot depends on whether they can game the algorithm to force their way into your home feed or not. Many news media sites also use clickbait, and the same goes for politicians wanting to get attention through fear and anger. But I agree very often clickbait crosses the line - it is really irritating when you see a thumbnail of something, and that image literally appears nowhere inside the content.

I mostly follow technology channels though.