Deleted YouTube again

For a little while I have been using YouTube way more, and even paid for the Lite subscription model, simply to test it out. Honestly, it hasn’t been too bad, and I actually really, really enjoy a lot of the videos I’ve gotten through the algorithm. But of course, YouTube Shorts have caught up with me and continue to be a very annoying problem, wasting seconds, minutes and hours of my time at every moment. The algorithm does show some interesting things, or funny content I enjoy, but things go downhill pretty quickly with the usual AI-generated slop videos and recycled content. A few of the saving graces I’ve seen is shorts made from genuinely awesome videos that came out like 5 years ago, so I think it’s an interesting way to bring life to evergreen videos about science and the like. With Outer Wilds playthroughs and essays running rampat, my feed slowly phased into more space and astronomy themed topics, which has been pretty fun to get into until I realize half the videos are way…