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Struggling to find enjoyable reading and listening material (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi. I'm a big YouTube guy. I spend a ton of time watching YouTube videos. But for the life of me, I can't seem to enjoy Japanese YouTube. I do enjoy watching SOME vtubers occasionally when they play fun games. Other than that I don't really read much unless it's on reddit/lemmy or github. Someone pointed me to a Japanese mastodon instance but it has a pretty intense VPN block.

What do you guys watch/read in Japanese?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (3 children)

I personally am going through tadoku catalog right now to get up to a level where I can watch and read random stuff.

I tried a YT method with Russian but I only found 2 youtubers that ware making enjoyable stuff. It was very easy to just switch accounts so a bit of willpower to get through unfun recommended stuff was necessary. Try to use the Algorithm to your advantage. It wants you to stay on youtube. (Sadly I don't want to learn Russian so I didn't keep going)

For Japanese Fediverse look into Misskey (and forks). They have a LOT of Japanese speaking people.

I am already reading a bunch of LN and Anime so switching for me will be easy. I also have a backlog of interesting looking YT channels: ずんだもんの定理, あらゐけいいち and Clear Usui

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I tried joining a Misskey instance last month with a VPN on and got kicked out :c It feels like I've tried everything in order for the algorithm to recommend me good videos. I try to like and comment on every good video I find. It has been like this for years at this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

It has been like this for years at this point.

option 1: reset the algorithm or
option 2: give up on youtube or
option 3: use classic subscriptions instead of algorithm. Just watch one guy that you enjoy.

joining a Misskey instance last month with a VPN

a) Do you REALLY need a VPN?
b) Find an instance that is VPN friendly. Just like lemmy.world has VPNs blocked but other instances don't. It would be similar there.

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