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Newpipe has completely replaced my Youtube usage since I mostly use it on mobile, and it lets you save your subscriptions locally. Its actually really nice and
by gabruoy 6y ago
Newpipe has completely replaced my Youtube usage since I mostly use it on mobile, and it lets you save your subscriptions locally. Its actually really nice and imo superior to the dumbed down Youtube app used nowadays anyway. Freetube is the same idea but for desktop, but I've found it to be much buggier in using it, so I occasionally just use youtube in a private tab and directly search for a video on desktop, usually after seeing in my Newpipe feed. Both of these are listed in the original list, but they deserve special shoutouts since YouTube is the site with the most universality within Google's ecosystem. Also many of your favorite video creators may already use services like LBRY and Bitchute.
- fossuser 6y agoIt’s less about the product to me and more about the content. YouTube has the content I want to watch, creators that use YouTube rely on it for their revenue and recommendation algorithm. Until that problem is fixed the alternatives won’t work.
- gabruoy 6y agoNewpipe and Freetube are YouTube frontends, so all the content is there just without having to sign in. If you only really use a subscriptions list and directly related videos as your way to find youtube content, it's a drop in replacement. If you want to use google's recommendation algorithm though,I don't think anyone is going to be able to recreate that experience any time soon.
- fossuser 6y agoThanks, that’s good to know - I’ll check those out.
- viraptor 6y ago> Also many of your favorite video creators may already use services like LBRY and Bitchute. Or moving to Nebula. Somehow https://watchnebula.com/ https://watchnebula.com/ gained a lot of attention recently with maybe half of my yt subscriptions also publishing there. (Or maybe it's just my bubble)