Fraidycat is a desktop app or browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. You can use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose - Twitter, a blog, YouTube, Instagram or even on a public TiddlyWiki.

So it's like a feed reader, and if you use your browser sync functionality, it will sync between your devices. Really worth trying out this concept, especially if you don't want to setup your own web-based feed reader. The built-in (and increasing) support for many non-RSS sources is also nice.

• Fraidycat video
• https://www.kickscondor.com/the-plan-with-my-dumb-fraidycat-project/
• Hackernews discussion, 2020-03-11

Code: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat

• No ads
• No need to create a Google account
• Tools for managing subscriptions
• Adds ability to listen only to audio
• No need for YouTube app in order to listen to videos on mobile (or use Newpipe on Android)
• No need to "ding" bell, just being subscribed is enough to receive all notifications
• No age-gate
• Dark mode (although YouTube has this now too)
• Free software (AGPL v3 license)

A good Firefox add-on is Privacy Redirect. Apart from handling Youtube can also redirect other services, and it also automatically rotates each redirect from a list of Invidious instances so as to avoid overloading any single one.

See Invidious Instances for a list of publicly available instances.

• "Small acts of resistance are all we need. Together, we make change", Yarmo Mackenbach
• https://reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/8wvazc/invidous_alternative_frontend_to_youtube/
• https://github.com/omarroth/invidious

Other Youtube front-end alternatives

• yt-dlp
• NewPipe (Android)
• PipePipe (Android), includes SponsorBlock
• yt-local , via reddit thread

Replacing Youtube altogether

Another approach is to replace Youtube with an open-source, federated video host service.
That would be PeerTube (see this blog post by LazyBear).

• https://fedi.video - a good place to get started with PeerTube, by FediThing

• The League of Moveable Type, the open-source font foundry. All the fonts from The League of Moveable Type are free & open source, available to use commercially and subject to the Open Font License.
• Guide to Only the Best Open-Source Typefaces, by Chad Mazzola.