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Episode: 4039
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Title: HPR4039: 3 ways to keep up with Youtube Channels
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4039/hpr4039.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 18:54:35
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4139 for Thursday, the 25th of January 2024.
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Today's show is entitled, Three Ways to Keep Up with YouTube Channels.
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It is hosted by Norrist, and is about 10 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is Norrist Blast, out a quick episode about three ways.
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He keeps up with YouTube Channels.
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So I had this episode idea that I've been kind of half developing, and I decided to
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just kind of go ahead and blast it out there.
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I'll do all of the usual rigorous prep work that I do as a joke, but I'm going to talk
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about how to keep up with YouTube subscriptions.
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I've got a few different ways, depending on the channel and how much I like to watch.
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I've got a few different ways I'll kind of keep up with it.
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So for some channels, the channels that I want to watch, everything they put out, these
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are ones where everything they do is good.
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I'm excited about it.
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I'm happy to see them pop up.
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For those that just I do the regular subscribe, I just, in YouTube, I just subscribe to
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the channel.
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So I'm going there, and I click on the subscriptions, or my subscriptions, I'll see all that
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stuff there.
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That's not a revolutionary idea by any means, but it's just sort of the baseline.
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Then sort of a second set of YouTube channels, or ones where I like to watch most of the
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things they make, but they may have episodes that I want to skip, or videos that I want
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to skip, and a lot of these are kind of fall into the category of channels where I like
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most of their content, but like in addition to YouTube, they may have a podcast or something.
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So they've got a bunch of kind of quick made for YouTube content, 10 minute videos about
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a topic or something, but kind of interspersed in that is maybe once a week, they'll put
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out a YouTube version of their podcast, and these tend to be longer, and that's just,
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that's not typically what I'm watching YouTube, but I don't normally watch hour-long videos,
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sometimes I will, but for the most part, that's not what I'm looking for, usually when
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I'm on YouTube, it's just because I've got 10 or 15 minutes to waste, and hour-long videos,
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especially if it's a podcast, that's not what I've got YouTube for, they do have a podcast,
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one example is number file, it's a really good math related YouTube channel, and actually
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this is a bad example because I do subscribe to their channel, but it's a good example
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because it demonstrates, you know, I've got a lot of math related videos, but occasionally
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they'll put out a podcast, and in this case, you know, I subscribe to their podcast, so
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I'll just listen to it on my podcast player, so for YouTube channels, or sort of in this
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category where I want to watch some of their content, but not all of their content,
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typically what I'll do is I will subscribe to an RSS feed of their YouTube channel, I
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think YouTube used to have RSS feeds for channels, but they really don't anymore, so
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what I do is I self-host an app called RSS Bridge, and I'll have a link to the app in
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the show notes, but what it does is it creates RSS feeds for things that don't normally
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have RSS feeds in this particular case, YouTube channels, but there's a lot of other things
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you may want to follow that don't have an RSS feed that you could use potentially the
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RSS Bridge app to create an RSS feed for, and it's real simple to host, it's a PHP app
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that doesn't require an external database or anything, so I've just got that learning
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inside a Linux VM somewhere, so what I'll do is I will create for one of these channels
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where I want to watch most of their content, but not 100% of their content, I'll create
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an RSS feed for it using RSS bridge, and then I'll just subscribe to it, because the RSS
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reader I normally use is a tiny, tiny RSS to the web-based reader, I run it on a home server,
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just like I run this RSS bridge on a home server, so they're always, they can always communicate
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right next to each other in the network, so it's a real easy way to get an RSS feed of
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a YouTube channel, and what I'll do is if I'm in my RSS feed reader every day, so when
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I notice that there's a YouTube channel, there's some new videos, I'll look and see what
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it is, and if it's something I want to watch, I'll watch it, and if it's something I want
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to skip, I'll skip it, easy pe-
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Then the third category of subscript sends is, like if there's a topic that I just want
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to be in for a while, so you know I said earlier, I don't normally watch YouTube for hours
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at a time, but sometimes I do have an hour, and so what I'll do is there'll be a topic
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that I'm interested in, and so I'll set up a, I'll set up something where I can just
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kind of see all of these topical videos in one place, for that, when I do something
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like a blog planet, so what, these used to be a lot more popular than, well back when
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blogs were more popular, there would be a website, the door of planet is a good example
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of where it would just be like a collection of blogs, so the planet would, the blog planet would
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quote, subscribe to, you know, 10, 20, you know, a bunch of just topical other RSS beads,
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and then you would go to that page, and you would see, you know, it was basically like a combination
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of all of the RSS beads, just on a single page, and I wanted to do something like that
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for these YouTube channels, so I was looking around for a software that would do something
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like that, and I could, I could only fund one, now I'm pretty sure there's, there's more than one
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that exists, I mean, maybe when I was limiting, when I was searching, I was limiting myself to
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PHP, because that's it, you know, those sort of apps are really the easiest to host, and I guess
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could probably do something like this with maybe WordPress, or I know that app I mentioned
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earlier, RSS bridge, it's one of its capabilities is you can give it a bunch of RSS feeds,
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and it will combine them into a single feed, but anyway, the app I've been using is called Moon Moon,
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M-O-O-N, M-O-O-N, like the Moon, but twice, and it's a PHP app, it doesn't, it's very simple,
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all it does is you provide it a list of RSS VGs, and it displays them, just like
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for the word planet, or some of the other blog planets that don't seem to exist anymore,
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or I can't find them, it doesn't seem to be a big thing anymore, but anyway,
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so I'll self host an instance of Moon Moon, and I will provide it a list of RSS feeds that are
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YouTube feeds that I made from the RSS bridge that I talked about just a second ago,
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and then whenever I have some extra time and just want to sort of dive into
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a YouTube topic, I'll just open the Moon Moon page, and there'll just be a long list of
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videos that I have subscribed to, and you know, these are some that, you know, if I'm missing
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an episode or two, or even if they make episodes or videos that I don't even know about, it's
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not a big deal, it's nothing that I necessarily feel like I have to keep up with, but I just
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want to, if I have some extra time, so just sort of been review the
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videos that I want to watch all the time, I just subscribe to the videos where I want to watch
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some, I'll create an RSS feed and monitor the channel in my RSS reader, and then finally,
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for the ones I just want to binge, but it's okay if I miss some, they don't use Moon Moon to make
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something like a blog style planet feed of YouTube channels. Oh, I think that's it, we've got
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through it. If you have something that you're working on or in the middle of, and just blast it
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out there, like I'm doing today, hacker or public radio could use some episodes, so there's not
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a small barrier to entry right now, so if you have something that you've been sitting on,
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just shoot it out there, certainly would be interesting, that's it, and I'll see you guys next time.
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