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hopefully this bout of youtube being as openly hostile to ux as possible will be enough for me to break my addiction
invidious is fine but feels held together by duct tape, is a chore to use, is actually more difficult to block certain elements like shorts, and remains reliant on the base of youtube.
the reformist in me genuinely think free file hosting should be a public service, and that there should just be really robust APIs so people can just choose their preferred front-end
it would never work, moderation would be a nightmare, you'd have to be draconian with rate limiting and the like, but idk
youtube is just so obviously the only game in town and it fucking sucks. the ideal would obviously be a decentralized protocol blah blah blah you've heard it all before and it will fail for all the same reasons the rest do