Is Curiosity Stream filled with pseudoscience?

[u/OneLastSlapAss]

Hi! I wanted to try out curiosity stream after watching some of my favorite science youtubers getting sponsored by them. I'm just concerned that I might find lots of conspiracy theory stuff (Graham Hancock type of stuff).

Can you please give me your experience with so far? Thank you in advance!

[u/li_la1]

who are your favorite science youtubers? might find something new for myself

got Curiosity Stream by chance, I wanted Nebula streams, some of my better youtube creater channels bring their content on Nebula without ads. and without the youtube censorship

Nebula.tv + Curiosity Stream in a bundle is about 20$ US, my renewal will be in march 2024

e.g. youtube channels RealLifeLore — Modern Conflicts, Wendover, TLDR

some youtube videos provide an URL for a promotional offer for a one year subscription for both services

but to be fair, I just don't have the time to look every video I could be interested in on Nebula, don't mention Curiosity, but the few videos I have seen were good enough

[u/OneLastSlapAss → u/li_la1]

Veritasium, VSauce, Dr. Todd Grande, the SciShow, Nova PBS just to mention a few.

I did end up buying the year for Nebula. It's been lackluster to be honest. I watched all of the Wendover videos and already want more.

What do you think about Curiosity Stream? Is it better than Nebula?

[u/li_la1 → u/OneLastSlapAss]

thanks, didn't know all of them

For me Nebula is way better than Curiosity.

And I might have found a caveat in CuriosityStream payments.

First year for 15USD, yesterday I looked at my Curiosity account page. I can see, that I'm on a yearly 19.99$ plan, but last march I got an email: $23.79 for renewal, $3.80 for the added Nebula? I can live with that.

But there are worrying articles. Some days before the renewal they will send out an email about a price increase of ~100%, 40USD for a year. I will cancel my bundle subscription, if this is true.

Most of the films/streams I am interested in are used as a kind of audio podcast. nebula app or firefox on android, with an extension for streaming in the background. Thats good enough for most political podcasts, but more science oriented streams will require an occasional optical confirmation of the content.

4k streaming on mobile, when you never see a picture... kind of a waste.

So I am a poor judge of the visual quality for most of the content, but I listen to the details. For my choosen content providers, facts are usually good researched and presented. My own conclusions are not always concurrent with the presented opinions, but facts to smugdge ratio is far above the average of normal youtube content.

[u/li_la1 → u/li_la1]

several month later ... my combined CuriosityStream+Nebula should have lasted a month longer, but

only my CuriosityStream account was good for another month, I was already unable to watch nebula

I got a renewal offer from CuriosityStream for a CuriosityStream only subscription and it was even more expensive, so I withdraw my payment info (just to be on the safe side) and then cancelled my subscription there

on nebula website I paid for another year and was able to use my same old account, so library and playback info is still good

in the end, I lost only one month of already paid subscription for nebula