YouTube, your feeds are broken - Open RSS
2026-05-06 11:25 UTC
Replies (5)
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@HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 2026-05-06 12:03
I use Freetube. Its a app, you don’t sign in, you can subscribe to stuff but those are stored locally (as I understand it?), adblock, sponsorblock, hide shorts etc are built in. Of course since you don’t use it with a account, you can’t comment, but that’s just a nice bonus feature. You can still read the comments if you so choose. Because it doesn’t load all the trackers and bullshit, its also about a billion times lighter than the youtube page, which is nice since my laptop is 700 years old and struggles to run anything, really. It does have “popular” and “trending” pages but those rarely work, another nice bonus. The only downside is that there is no “sort by popular” option when browsing a channels videos. But all in all, highly recommend it. Apparently there are other such apps available but thats the only one I’ve used.
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@lime@feddit.nu 2026-05-06 11:35
closed wontfix this is intended behaviour. rss feeds don't drive up engagement.
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@RegularJoe@lemmy.world 2026-05-06 11:33
1. get content creators. 2. hide their feeds so they don't make money. Use the algorithm to feed up creators the viewer didn't subscribe to, so that they watch randos. 3. ... 4. Profit.
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@Korkki@lemmy.ml 2026-05-06 12:00
It's daily 3-5h outage at this point on all youtube channel feeds. About 3:00-7:00 AM Greenwich time.
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@flameleaf@lemmy.world 2026-05-07 01:29
I generate my YouTube feeds through RSSHub which also uses the API, so its a bit more durable than the officially provided feeds It also has options for filtering out shorts which is nice