Went on a 16 day screen fast years ago and felt great afterwards. Had the energy to do things and focus. I still got addicted to the internet again, however over the years the enticement it once had is nearly gone.

• use Reddit for hobby related questions passively.
• use Tumblr passively to look at art a few times a month.
• use nitter passively a few times a month for artists and streamers and indie companies.
• use some forums passively also a few times a month.
• got rid of twitch because it got boring and hasn’t improved since I got rid of it.
• YouTube is the biggest sucker but my watch time is probably 2-3 hours compared to 14hrs a few years ago. Noticed that people are posting even less and most stuff I see is from 1 week–1 month-1 year ago. Actively staying off to get rid of the left over addiction and have an rss feed for any important stuff.
• I started Mastodon and Lemmy last month. I use it everyday for less than an hour and post sporadically.

Used both at one time, Skytube didn’t work as well as newpipe on my devices. Maybe that has changed now since some time has passed. It doesn’t seem to be updated much on fdroid with the last update being 3 months ago and didn’t update for 5 before that.

It wasn’t a bit fan of the video interface, it felt like I was watching YouTube on the mobile site.

The big thing was being able to download the video and audio. Skytube only allows video downloads. If I want offline music, I can only use Newpipe. And Newpipe let’s me decide which quality and file I want per download. It also allows downloads from SoundCloud, media.ccc.de, framatube and Bandcamp.

From what I understand, Skytube is now using Newpipe’s api for the back-end by default, so take that as you will.

I’m using megalodon and sometimes this happens when pictures are loading after a refresh. Could be that the server is slow.

I use Brave Browser’s search engine, however the results are less than ideal compared to a big company like Google and I don’t care for the AI generated information paragraph when looking up a topic as the first result. The only real private search engine is searx afaik.