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On YouTube there's the algorithm. Watch one video and yeah half the recommendations are right wing trash and pseudosience but there may be something good somewhere.
On Peertube, discovering new things is practically impossible. Also, half the videos I tried didn't even play.
In open for suggestions though
it's all right wing trash because they exclude left wing content via demonization -- you should expect anything besides it from corporate platforms since right wing content is pro-profit content.
That just simply isn't true. My feed is like 50% left-wing content, the rest isn't political at all.
I'm not interested in political stuff at all. Still, I get a lot of shit from the old colonies south of Canada for some reason.
I do like science but then half the recommendations are about space aliens and religion.
I get a ton of left wing stuff recommended in my feed and no right wing trash. As much as the algorithm has degraded, it can learn things like this from what you watch and like.