Inspired by the opposite question posted recently, what YouTube creators have you watched for a long time and still find worth returning to? Alternatively, what are some new high quality channels you have been enjoying?

  • folekaule@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 day ago

    In no particular order:

    • The Rest Is Science (podcast)
    • Technology Connections/Connextras
    • Jeff Geerling / Level 2 Jeff – Edit: see replies below
    • Techmoan
    • Gamers Nexus / GNCA
    • LGR
    • Switch and Click
    • The Linux Experiment
    • Tasting History with Max Miller
    • Ben Eater (breadboard computers)
    • Stuff Made Here (engineering)
    • Up and Atom (science)
    • Simon d’Entremont (photography)
    • Words Unravelled and Rob’s Words (English language)
    • Kurzgesagt – Edit: see replies below
    • Veritasium – Edit: see replies below
    • Tom Scott (the returned)
    • Asianometry (tech history)
    • Clabretro (retro networking and server hardware)

    Edit: A few bonus channels that may be of interest but didn’t all fit the criteria for me:

    • Action Retro - doing silly stuff with old computers - more recent discovery for me
    • Dr Geoff Lindsey - Linguistics - I only watch occasionally - can be a bit heavy on the linguistic science for an amateur like me.
    • Lftkryo - Linus Åkesson - an absolute wizard coding on the C64
    • RetroBytes - computer history. Most of his content is mainly him just talking, so I can just listen while I’m doing something else
    • Tech Tangents - more of a recently discovered channel for me. Vintage hardware. Underrated channel.
    • Serial Port and Parallel port - vintage computers and networking. Brings back memories from my days working for an ISP.
    • Honorary mention to Veronica Explains. She keeps things pretty basic so I don’t get a lot out of her videos, but I like her stance on open source and not selling out. She posts everything on Peertube as well.
    • iamthetot@piefed.caEnglish
      72·
      2 days ago

      Veritasium is majority owned by private equity now, fyi. I just found out myself the other day.

    • farmgineer@nord.pubEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      Jeff Geerling

      He came up in the other thread about youtubers people stopped following, so you may want to check that out.

      • folekaule@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        Thanks for the heads up. I knew he was a devout Catholic, but I never had the experience that he was pushing any agenda–as in he tends to just stick to technical content. I don’t mind watching people with different opinions than mine, but “cure the gay” is very problematic. I would be sad, since I really like his content. I will have to read up some more on this.

        Along similar lines: another channel I have been watching is Smarter Every Day, where the host, Destin, is fairly open about his faith. That may put some people off, but overall I have found his content overall interesting and I don’t feel like he’s preaching to me, but others may be more sensitive to that. He’s currently pushing his own grill scrubber product pretty hard, which I find off-putting, but I see what he’s trying to do. I’m giving him a chance to get back to more interesting engineering stuff.

        To address the others: yes, I know there are some potentially controversial entries, like Veritasium and Kurzgesagt. I have Veritasium “on probation” due to the change, but so far the new hosts have done a pretty decent job. Kurzgesagt is one I kind of leave for a long time and then come back every so often, because they have something interesting and their content is presented well. Totally understand if people choose to give them a skip.