Peertube is the Fediverse equivalent. It needs more content, and more instances to host said content, but it's a good start.

I've been using a mix of selfhosted Invidous / Freetube at home, revanced on the phone. I'm good so far, but I don't consume much YouTube anyway so the homepage / subscription page doesn't impact my experience, as I can personalize it in Invidious anyway.

You can try Peertube or Odyssee.

I bought vinegar on the Mac AppStore and my life has been so much easier. No ads, simple HTML5 player for the videos. Sure you lose some of the more advanced functionality, but fuck it - I’m never going back.

And on my AndroidTV I use SmartTubePlus. Soo good!

Nebula, it is a paid service, but I'm happy to pay for something that just works. There's a lot of smart creators there as well

They got rid of the Dislike button

There's an extension to get it back

They changed the Homepage to 2 ginormous thumbnails per row

And they've hidden the 'watch later' button, to press it now you first need to wait for the video preview to load 🙄

WTF are they thinking?

It's like they purposely make the UI a little bit worse every two months.

NewPipe is the alternative so far. Libretube is cool, but the instances are unstable. Odysee is also good though it can get slow depending on your connection.

odysee ?