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yewtu.be is an invidious instance with an easy to remember domain name.

Wow, I occasionally open Youtube in a private browser window, and am invariably disgusted by the hot garbage that it recommends. When I opened your link just now, the video recommendations were incomparably better. Do you know if Invidious does any curation or is it just that their average user is so much more discerning in their consumption?

Neither the project Invidious nor the software Invidious does any kind of curation - it's just the usual YouTube recommendations, but as if all of the users of each Invidious instance were one person. It's interesting to see how the recommendations differ between instances, reflecting the interests of the average user on that instance.

I find that I enjoy YouTube a lot more with that kind of semi-personalised experience, in the same way that Hacker News has a collective but remarkably distinctive feeling compared to other forums/link aggregators.

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