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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 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