Moving away from Google. I just added my fav subs into my rss feed but that isn’t an enough to get good recs. What else can one do? Alternative front ends that work?
I have a locally hosted invidious instance but increasingly I’m finding most of the creators I watch are on Nebula. I just recently discovered that Rifftrax has a presence there.
With invidious and in FreshRSS I use the youtube extension to use the embedded video player, you just need update this part of the code https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions/blob/master/xExtension-YouTube/extension.php#L153-L163
It easy just to replace for this:public function getHtmlContentForLink(FreshRSS_Entry $entry, string $link): string { $domain = 'www.youtube.com'; if ($this->useNoCookie) { $domain = 'www.youtube-nocookie.com'; } $domain = 'invidious.personal.com'; $params = 'quality=dash'; $url = str_replace('//www.youtube.com/watch?v=', '//'.$domain.'/embed/', $link); $url = str_replace('http://', 'https://', $url); $url = $url . '?' . $params; return $this->getHtml($entry, $url); }
The only change is to use
$domain = 'invidious.personal.com';
And add the parameterquality=dash
Seems there’s also this one https://github.com/tunbridgep/freshrss-invidious
but haven’t tried itI use a self-hosted invidious instance, and despite the recent issues with Google trying to block them mine works behind Mullvad VPN.
I use the web app on desktop, and Yattee client on my phone/ipad
Self-hosted Invidious or public Invidious instances.