The perfect social media android experience, using Jerboa for ad free, federated, social media and Newpipe for ad free YouTube with a beautiful userface.
Install newpipe with f-droid.
Remember to go into Apps and click on Newpipe and change default urls so Android opens all the YouTube urls with Newpipe.
After that, it’s heaven on mobile.
Here’s a couple others on f-droid
Spotube - Spotify
ViMusic - Youtube Music
Also i recommend Newpipe x Sponsorblock
Personally I use LibreTube, which is an Android frontend for the Piped API, an anonymous YouTube interface and proxy. I self host Piped, so it’s nice to have an app that integrates on mobile. Personally, I think LibreTube looks a lot nicer than newpipe, buy new pipe has more functionality iirc
Thank you for sharing LibreTube! It’s exactly what I was looking for!
I was starting to like NewPipe more since Revanced borked on my phone. However, it doesn’t load child comments and the UI could use an update. LibreTube seems to improve on those exact issues!
Are people not using YouTube Vanced anymore? I’m old.
OG Vanced died (mostly) but there’s revanced now. I use it and it works pretty much perfectly
I agree, though I personally use the NewPipe x SponsorBlock fork of it.
You can get that for Android TV. YouTube from television with no ads or sponsor segments is sweet.
You forgot an amazing reason to use NewPipe: Subscription Groups. You can assign different subscriptions to different groups and view a subs feed of that particular group. So I’d have a group for game dev and stuff, and another for media criticism, etc. Awesome stuff!!
PeerTube really needs more attention
Never heard about it.
YouTube really needs competition. But a video platform is expensive to run, not to mention labour intensive. There’s a reason in 20 years no one has truly come close to the scale of YouTube.
PeerTube actually works but needs a lot of improvements
And content, by what I can tell.
Absolutely.
I downloaded Jerboa last night. Haven’t checked it out yet but will soon. :D
Eh…I’m liking Revanced, myself.
Same. Newpipe seems lacking in UI. I’ve heard that even the devs acknowledged this and are planning a full rewrite of the app.
Or just have lineageos with no gapps package installed. Means no youtube and newpipe just handles all yr links. Dont forget pasting a peertube url in the search will play peertube videos just as well
I ran lineage a while back, worked really good. Will probably go back again in the future.
Agree and thanks for the url tip
My pet peeve is when people take time during their video to put in an ad that is part of the video itself, so it’s not skippable like traditional Youtube ads. You have to use the seeker to fast forward past the ad.
I have YT premium (we get it with our cell phone plan), so I’m even paying these people for the videos, yet am still being served ads. I wish YouTube would institute a policy against it.
There is a fork of NewPipe which supports sponsorblock. That clips out the segments your talking about. Mainline NewPipe won’t support that as an ethical stance so only in the fork.
YT ReVanced has Sponsorblock built in, it can skip those ads for you. It is community-run though, somebody has to have watched it first to flag that segment.
That said, I usually let those run to support the channel. The creators aren’t making much from standard ads, but I’ll watch the ones they actually get paid for.
Wow, that’s an incredible feature.
As an aside, do you know if they actually get paid more if you watch those types of ads? How do they know that you watched it?
There is one channel in particular that I watch, and I just get tired of hearing about Nord VPN on every single video. I’ve heard the pitch. I don’t need a VPN.
