I don’t begrudge these YouTube 
projects at all, but ultimately we’ve got to get independent of Google somehow. PeerTube seems like a good direction, but people making a buck from YouTube aren’t likely to just up and move there. Video production is a lot of labor.
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Hmm well on mobile size display it doesn't quite scale down perfectly. but it's close. It also doesn't seem to do wayland natively so the text is blurry, but I'm going to try a workaround to enable that. Seems pretty lightweight for an electron app
edit: running flatpak with --socket=wayland and the app with --ozone-platform=wayland seems to work great, no more fuzzy text
the picture-in-picture mode button obscures the fullscreen button and I wish it used all the available width in portrait mode, rather than always having borders, but this overall is still great, considering it obviously wasn't designed for mobile
This seems really cool, built-in sponsor block and chapter support are big improvements on Invidious
very nice I wonder if it scales down to mobile UI size cleanly. Also wonder if the performance is good enough for a slow mobile platform like the pinephone but hey worth a shot. I've got a DIY'ed chromecast alternative that runs on a raspberry pi, and watch a lot of youtube videos through mpv or invidious, but I find myself going back to youtube proper for discovery (my watch history is turned off so I "only" get subscriptions, but I do get per-video recommendeds as well, just not personalized.
edit: ooh it looks like it scales down pretty well, gonna install it on mobile too. would be nice to stop using youtube proper at all, and if I can port my subscriptions this might do it
edit 2: this also seems a lot more user friendly and thought out than other attempts I've seen at the same type of app, like newpipe and others