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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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…
Unwatched is great on ios.
I just use Newpipe
However, Piped and Invidious are not dead. YouTube is trying really hard to kill them but they still work somewhat. It is a cat and mouse game.
They’re effectively dead. I haven’t ever found a single instance that works for more than a few days in years, despite people constantly recommending them.
Probably because people self-host them. I have an invidious instance self-hosted and use clipious on android to watch videos on it. Feels super modern and have pretty much no issues. Public instances usually don’t work because of datacenter ips get blocked by YouTube.
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 playerThat seems like it would screw the creators more than YouTube.
Possibly, but for how ad laiden YT has become it’s a path I’m willing to take.
