As you guys already know, the
enshittified YouTube has been becoming more and more obnoxious over the years; from injecting advertisements at the start, at the end, and
in the middle of video, as well as
while you paused it,
complete with anti ad-blocker;
coaxing viewers into addiction, supercharged by its hyperpersonalization, sneaky auto-next, and endless-scroll recommendation sidebar; stuffed to the brim with espionage ability to rival 1984's telescreen to milk every eyeballs dry, grinding lower-powered computers to halt in the process.
Many people
considered boycotting YouTube. Some of them try to find their way out to competing video-hosting services like Vimeo and DailyMotion, while some others confide in video-based federated social network like
PeerTube and such.
In my view however: when done correctly and in moderation,
self-hosting would be the most reliable way to go in the long term, and when we're being at it, it should be done as simplest as possible,
without requiring any active code on the server side. And the open secret in this area is: the technology for making self-hosted
followable video channel that meets these simplicity criteria actually has been existing for a very long time now...
That technology is called
video podcast: basically a podcast
(1), but each entry's enclosure link
(2) pointing to a video file instead of an audio file.
I have known about both podcasts and video podcasts in technical aspect for a very long time (decade or so); but I have only very-recently started listening to an (audio) podcast, while video podcasts themselves hadn't really passed my eyes in the corners of Internet I have been exploring at all.
So before I would take a leap of faith through generic Internet search engines
(3), I would ask: do you watch video podcast(s)?
(4) If you do,
which one(s) which you would recommend me and others to watch? (5)
P.S. I'm interested in the topic of maker culture, amateur/hobby electronics, DIY, low-tech, retro-tech, libre software, libre hardware, architecture, science, history (of technology, architecture, or culture in particular), applied art+crafts, music (especially classical and soundtrack), food, agriculture, self-sufficiency, (non-religious) prepper, including outdoor+wild survival.
I'm not serious about asking you to recommend according to my interest; but I ask you to
NOT recommend "podcast" which required proprietary application to view or required subscription, as well as podcasts which contain laundered (i.e. "AI"-generated) content, or promote/teach people how to commit content-laundering crime.
(1) Reminder: (audio) podcast is just an ordinary Atom (or RSS) feed, which each entry have metadata field called enclosure/attachment
(2) that links to a URL of audio file; while the entry's text/markup content itself would be treated as extra description/remarks about that audio ("show notes" in podcasters' term).
(2) Some feed readers use a term "attachment" instead of "enclosure".
(3) And plow myself through vast zombified land of content-laundered podslops that I might find.
(4) I'm intentionally using the word "watch" rather than the word "subscribe" here; because you can technically watch/listen-to podcasts without actually subscribing to them. (I currently listen to a podcast by manually downloading+converting individual audio file and track listened episodes by hand)
(5) Basically, this thread is a more-or-less video podcast analog of the
YouTube channels recommendation thread you know which.