Youtube deserves no credit: they do nothing to make educational videos more discoverable, they cannot even categorise them properly!
My 'feed' is filled with videos I already watched and typically the only way I discover new content is linked from HN or other sites.
Neither does Youtube treat their educational creators well - as far ad they are concerned, 'influencer' reviewing funny viseos has more value than educational content.
For me, YouTube serves me up so much educational content i want to watch that there is over 100 hours of content in my Watch Later. And i do very often go through the videos it gives me but it never ends.
YouTube is a tool, you have to do a bit of curation so it learns what you like and dislike, and then it just delivers an unending firehose of content matching that. And if what you like is educational content, boy is there a lot of it available.
I dunno what i am doing wrong, but my youtube feed is a barrage of things I've already watched, the only way for me to get something new suggested that's not garbade is to spesifically search for it.
In my experience, youtube recommendations are stellar for educational and long form content, so i would absolutely recommend looking at them if that is your focus. I've discovered a lot of cool channels this way.
Do you have watch history turned off maybe? YouTube extremely rarely recommends videos I've already watched (and usually, it's explicitly a suggestion to rewatch something that might actually be cool to rewatch)
My 'feed' is filled with videos I already watched and typically the only way I discover new content is linked from HN or other sites.
Neither does Youtube treat their educational creators well - as far ad they are concerned, 'influencer' reviewing funny viseos has more value than educational content.