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illuminerdy on Nov 27, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: FreeTube – A Private YouTube Client

I've been using FreeTube for quite a while now. It's great for subscribing to channels that you don't necessarily want to infect your regular YouTube feed and recommendations.

europeanguy on Nov 27, 2022 [–]

Why not just RSS? Don't get me wrong, I hate Google's monopoly as much as anyone else, but in this specific case I don't see the benefit of using some app for the subscriptions, vs rss

ekianjo on Nov 27, 2022 | [–]

It goes beyond just feeds

MattDemers on Nov 28, 2022 | | [–]

Just to add, Freetube has support for comments, timestamp segments, and other things that goes beyond RSS.

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