I use RSS to track my “subscriptions”. When one of those creators finally move over to ANY other platform other than youtube, I replace their youtube feed with that other platform. So all my subscriptions are in one place, but I’m not specifically tied to youtube.
Edit: I also don’t need to login to my youtube/google account at all.
Yes, I use rss for news. I follow the stuff that I lik since I don’t like social media for news source. So I go to some news website that I want news from, then copy their rss link and paste it in my rss feed reader. I use read you for my phone
Getting the channelID is the worst part of the process. Let’s take Hacksmith Industries as an example though. You visit their page, https://www.youtube.com/@theHacksmith. Head over to the “About” tab. Then find the “Share” arrow. When you click that arrow you’ll get “Share Channel” and “Copy Channel ID”. Copy “Channel ID” will give you UCjgpFI5dU-D1-kh9H1muoxQ
This is what I do innately.
I use RSS to track my “subscriptions”. When one of those creators finally move over to ANY other platform other than youtube, I replace their youtube feed with that other platform. So all my subscriptions are in one place, but I’m not specifically tied to youtube.
Edit: I also don’t need to login to my youtube/google account at all.
Man I I just use my rss feed as news reader. (I use read you from f-droid). Rss is such a dope and simple thing and I’ve just learned about it
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Yes, I use rss for news. I follow the stuff that I lik since I don’t like social media for news source. So I go to some news website that I want news from, then copy their rss link and paste it in my rss feed reader. I use read you for my phone
How do you get youtibe channels over rss? That would be super helpful as youtibes recommendations constantly miss the mark for me.
So the link is templated like this…
www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<ChannelID>Getting the channelID is the worst part of the process. Let’s take Hacksmith Industries as an example though. You visit their page, https://www.youtube.com/@theHacksmith. Head over to the “About” tab. Then find the “Share” arrow. When you click that arrow you’ll get “Share Channel” and “Copy Channel ID”. Copy “Channel ID” will give you UCjgpFI5dU-D1-kh9H1muoxQ
So the feed for Hacksmith Industries would be
www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCjgpFI5dU-D1-kh9H1muoxQ