How can I get Lemmy to stop all the political stuff

this is radical suggestion, but maybe dont use youtube? its working for me.

I had to clear my history because all I was getting was jujutsu kaisen and none of my subscription stuff was coming through.

I'm not subscribed to anyone on youtube, but my feed is pretty good. Every time i see something i don't like or care i hit the three dots and choose: don't recommend channel, and then they slowly go away.

Stop clicking, interacting, hovering or looking at the thumbnail for too long. Clear your watch history. Search up lots of unrelated content that you enjoy, thumbs it up, subscribe to unrelated channels you like. It will stop doing that. Mine basically only shows video essays an, science, technology and gaming content

Turn off history. It makes the homepage blank, and you will only see your subscriptions. But, there are still recommendations in the side bar you will have to ignore.

Downvote it when it comes onto your feed.

Some shit gets injected by region or time of day. I live in a red state and get obnoxious red state hobbys that I am either not interested in or only minorly interested in and the ads are even worse.

Get a chrome extension to block channels, ez pz

Don’t log in, clear your cache, use a vpn

I mean I use newpipe and grayjay. So like only channels I sub to show up

https://sepiasearch.org/

Edit: I don't really have a full answer, but I hope that we can get the problem fixed with community-based video hosting, like the one linked above.

I don't understand why people don't turn off youtube watch history. I nuked my account about a year ago and have since made a new account with a burner email adress. Turned off all tracking and history for YouTube and all affiliate Google accounts and all the recommended videos are completely random shit. They're basically sidebar ads to me now, I dont even notice they're there. I want to watch a video - search it, watch it, thats it never see any other shit about.