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

  • @fitgse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    I was using freshrss which can grab the rad feed for a channel, but I’ve moved to tube archivist with a Jellyfin plugin. Now they are all predownloaded and just show up on my tv via Jellyfin app.

    It’s a way better way to keep track of what you want to watch.

    • KonraddoEnglish
      0•4 months ago

      Just curious if there’s a setting in any of those applications that removes downloaded videos which have been watched at least once, and after x amount of time? It’s sort of like a watch list. If watched, I don’t want to keep the video. But if I do, I can add it to a playlist and let PinchFlat download it for archive.

  • rammjetEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    My personal Invidious server works just fine.

  • @mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    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.

  • @lent9004@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    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.

  • @Aku@lemm.eeEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    Anything work for iOS? I was using a side loaded app but it recently stopped working.

  • JaggedRobotPubesEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    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.

  • @JamonBear@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all <url> is the way. It turns playlist link into nicely named, curated video files awaiting to played by a regular video player

    • @IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
      0•4 months ago

      Does “all” remove every type of segment? Because that seems excessive for most people, there is a lot of filler/etc sections that are over-zealously tagged.

  • RevvEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    Newpipe still works on Android.

      • @stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
        0•4 months ago

        I like that pipepipe provides an option to use a Google account fall back for videos that are age verified, since those don’t work anymore without an account.

        And they got a content filter update too so can block channels and keywords.

  • John ColagioiaEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    I believe that YouTube supports RSS. I haven’t used it in years, but gPodder allowed subscribing to channels.

    Ah, yeah. From this post:

    • Go to the YouTube channel page.
    • Click more for the About box.
    • Scroll down to click Share channel. Choose Copy channel ID.
    • Get the feed from https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id= plus that channel ID from the previous step.

    From there, something (like a podcast client) needs to grab the video.

    Otherwise, I’ve been using Tartube to download to my media server, which is not great but fine, except for needing to delete the lock file when it (or the computer) crashes, and the fact that the media server hasn’t the foggiest idea of how to organize the “episodes.”