Instead YouTube gives me literally nothing but AI spam. :/

I scrolled down a bit more and got this: https://i.postimg.cc/fJcPhG45/Screenshot-20251118-150802.png

Scrolled down some more and this: https://i.postimg.cc/v1khnhRp/Screenshot-20251118-151325.png

I kept scrolling until I ran out of relevant results. Not a single video was legit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much AI slop in one search term and by the gods there is a lot of crap on YouTube.

Anyone have a good comparison video? I’m just wanting a decent comparison of Actual, Firefly III and possibly HomeBank. Feel free to also give me your 2 cents on whatever you use :)

OQB @Thorned_Rose@sh.itjust.works

  • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzEnglish
    5·
    3 hours ago

    I’ve tried it on PipePipe, and the results are the same. I don’t think you’ll find it, because there are no comparison videos without AI slop.

  • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
    15·
    4 hours ago

    creepy AI voice: Hello. In this video we will. Examine the differences between two popular budget ing sofware.

  • taiyang@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 hours ago

    Holy hell, your recommendation algorithm is all sorts of fucked. I tried to replicate it but just searching for “FOSS budgeting software comparison” it looks like there’s a few legit ones in the mix, but plenty of AI, too.

    I’m not going to watch them to check though, since hitting one AI one will probably make them all AI, lol.

    • recklessengagement@lemmy.world
      22·
      4 hours ago

      YouTube has integrated a boatload of AI “tools”, including suggested video ideas/titles/thumbnails based on market and audience trends.

      My guess as to what happened here is that multiple channels got and followed the same AI-generated suggestions. I’m not familiar with these names so I don’t know whether they are legitimate creators or just content farms/AI imitators.

      • Cruxifux@feddit.nl
        6·
        3 hours ago

        Oh my god seriously? That’s actually hilarious that it’s accidentally causing people to make the same video thumbnails.

  • 6nk06@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    6 hours ago

    I’m a lazy bastard and I don’t self host for a lot of reasons. I use Actual because it’s close to the old YNAB and has a desktop version (AppImage, I know it sucks, I don’t care).

    It has a list of transactions, and a budget with envelopes. That’s all I need and it’s fine.

    As for the others:

    • Firefly wants me to use Docker, I don’t have time for that and I don’t have a server
    • Homebank has a weird dev process on launchpad, no releases, and wants me to disable uBlock Origin, fuck it

    And the slop is the reason I don’t use YouTube anymore. People seem to enjoy that dead internet because it looks like TV.

    • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
      2·
      41 minutes ago

      Appimage is perfectly fine for smaller projects that don’t have the resources to support different packaging formats.