Hi. I’m a big YouTube guy. I spend a ton of time watching YouTube videos. But for the life of me, I can’t seem to enjoy Japanese YouTube. I do enjoy watching SOME vtubers occasionally when they play fun games. Other than that I don’t really read much unless it’s on reddit/lemmy or github. Someone pointed me to a Japanese mastodon instance but it has a pretty intense VPN block.

What do you guys watch/read in Japanese?

  • PonyOfWar@pawb.social
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    10 days ago

    Importing used books from Japan is relatively cheap. I have a shelf with various novels and manga in Japanese I bought over the years.

    • DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyzM
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      7 days ago

      If you have an amazon.jp account, you can also buy Japanese books for the kindle for a pretty low price. Though obviously Kindle books aren’t something you really own, so I prefer them for stuff I’m okay eventually losing.

  • ludrol@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I personally am going through tadoku catalog right now to get up to a level where I can watch and read random stuff.

    I tried a YT method with Russian but I only found 2 youtubers that ware making enjoyable stuff. It was very easy to just switch accounts so a bit of willpower to get through unfun recommended stuff was necessary. Try to use the Algorithm to your advantage. It wants you to stay on youtube. (Sadly I don’t want to learn Russian so I didn’t keep going)

    For Japanese Fediverse look into Misskey (and forks). They have a LOT of Japanese speaking people.

    I am already reading a bunch of LN and Anime so switching for me will be easy. I also have a backlog of interesting looking YT channels: ずんだもんの定理, あらゐけいいち and Clear Usui

    • りん〜@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      I tried joining a Misskey instance last month with a VPN on and got kicked out :c It feels like I’ve tried everything in order for the algorithm to recommend me good videos. I try to like and comment on every good video I find. It has been like this for years at this point.