Unrelated, but I want to move from a Google account youtube feed to something a bit more client-side where I have the control but my main problem is the YouTube

Unrelated, but I want to move from a Google account youtube feed to something a bit more client-side where I have the control but my main problem is the YouTube recommendation algorithm. I feel like after a decade and a half google knows pretty well what I like and what I'm interested in. I built that homepage brick by brick. Whenever I tried other youtube clients or ungoogled alternatives the recommendations were all really generic and not that good. Of course I won't find something that matches the real deal, but at least I want to: 1. Steer away from viral content, aka Mr Beast videos or whatever. 2. Have discoverability of youtube videos I would be interested in but that I'm not subscribed to yet. To this day I still find new channels or videos I'm really interested in on my recommended feed.