Materialious is usable on Web, Android (TV too) & Desktop.
It can be used with Invidious or using its own YouTube backend.
Has its own account system with end-to-end encryption for subscriptions.
The thing about these front ends is that Google will eventually get around to blocking your IP. After many unsuccessful attempts that got ban hammered after a week or so, I finally got it to work. I piped it through Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust. Haven’t had an issue. My deployment was the Invideous with companion app. The Companion app has been complaining about being unhealthy for ages now, but it keeps right on ticking. I don’t watch a huge number of YT videos. Usually my consumption is a tutorial here or there.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Help me understand what this does. It looks like it run on your own device and fetches YouTube videos you want to see, presenting them to you through its interface without ads and shit.
So I could throw it in my server and have my phone pull up its page and play content right?
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Similar to Invideous, et al. You Tube front end.
taperi@piefed.social 2 days ago
I was gonna say, how is this different from invidious?
Ward@lemmy.nz 1 day ago
Materialious can be deployed in a lot of ways.
It can be used purely as a Invidious frontend.
You can use it as a web server with its own YouTube engine and account system.
Or you can use it as a Desktop & Mobile app with or without Invidious
Arkhive@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Yes, exactly.