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

  • @Aku@lemm.eeEnglish
    2•4 months ago

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

  • jevans ⁂English
    16•4 months ago

    As others have said, invidious is not dead, and they’re working on factoring out the part that interfaces with YouTube itself, so that updates to react to changes in YouTube will be able to be implemented much faster.

  • RevvEnglish
    78•4 months ago

    Newpipe still works on Android.

      • @stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
        2•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
    15•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.”

  • JaggedRobotPubesEnglish
    7•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.

  • @stardust@lemmy.caEnglish
    3•4 months ago

    I was going to recommend android apps until I saw iOS. I don’t know anyones that let you keep a local subscription like newpipe does without needing to sideload. So if there are I’d be interested.

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    40•4 months ago

    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.

    • UlrichEnglish
      2•4 months ago

      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.

      • @madeofpendletonwool@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        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.

  • @lent9004@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7•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.