😅 I just hate checking individual pages with their own algorithms. Give me one Inbox in Thunderbird with everyone’s messages.

I use these services as a newsfeed. I already have accounts and RSS feeds set up everywhere. It’s just a matter of waiting for the people I follow to fully make the switch.

When you stream you’re still downloading. I prefer to have finer grain control over my buffer zone for when I’m offline.

I use RSSHub to generate feeds for my subscriptions, then use this trick on Thunderbird to open video links directly with yt-dlp.

I use LocalSend to move the videos (and other files) to VLC.

VLC player

I have a system involving multiple devices. I download the videos with yt-dlp on my computer, then send them to my phone for mobile watching.