As it stands, both Piped and Invidious are dead.
Because od that, I almost completely stopped watching youtube but l’d still sometimes like to check what the people I follow posted (I used to do that via Piped).
Are there any new ways of following people without actually using Google? I’m aware of the tools that download new videos as they come out but I’m more interested in just “subscribing”, kinda like RSS?
Ideally it would be on iOS
Edit: I found it, “Unwatched” on iOS is awesome, thanks to !FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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I just use yt-dlp and VLC ¯\(ツ)/¯
i “subscribe” via rss in freshrss, just use the normal youtube.com on desktop and mobile browser. StoptheMadness on iOS to strip ads
FreeTube still works for my Linux system, for most videos.
same
As others have said, invidious is not dead, and they’re working on factoring out the part that interfaces with YouTube itself, so that updates to react to changes in YouTube will be able to be implemented much faster.
Revanced and Firefox + uBlock Origin.
First one’s hard to set up, but I’m sure anybody self-hosting literally anything could do it in two seconds.
Grayjay by FUTO has been working well for me
Forgot about that one but it’s only on Android (mobile-wise)
Sorry to be the bearer of good news, but you’re wrong…
Oh, I wasn’t sure what platform you needed. For iOS, yeah I have no idea. For anyone else that comes across this though, Grayjay also has a desktop app now
Addressing the subscribing part; I had similar requirements, so I started subscribing via FreshRSS while using a custom theme to give it a YouTube-like experience.
I shared the setup a few month ago here: https://lemmy.world/post/21381606
Edit: One of the benefits of using selfhosted RSS with a web interface is that it is platform agnostic.
It hasn’t been working lately. Videos stop at 0:59
Hmm, I haven’t had that issue
Eh fuck it, I’m enjoying freetube now
My personal Invidious server works just fine.
Self hosted Invidious still works
piped.video still works for me: subscriptions, categories, comments. Watching is MPV
I’m using News Explorer for my RSS feeds which also supports subscribing to YouTube channels. In the newer versions it even pulls the comments from YT.
Freetube and
mpv(usesyt-dlpin the background) work well for me 🤷On iOS, I uninstalled the app and use Brave for YT & if I need to get on Reddit.
