There is freetube which had rss really easy to work with for youtube subscriptions.

One of my biggest issues was that on some occasions, Youtube algorithm would give me home run so I would still frequent Youtube algorithm

Another issue was that smh, youtube's rss feeds couldn't really find the difference between shorts and normal videos.

So if you have a channel which makes lots of short form content, you would see that so much more often.

Like I remember taking a few hours out of my life to fix it but ended up giving up.

Although now thinking about it, I feel like what can be done is seeing all the youtube videos and seeing all the shorts videos from an api or similar I guess and then seeing the difference and having it for an rss or such to pass another rss.

But one can see the pain in the ass for that and I am not sure how that would even work.

I must comment, Hackernews has been the perfect spot between algorithmically generated and completely self feed as it gives me new things.

is there anything like Hackernews but for youtube/video content?