I just set up a local instance of Invidious. I created an account, exported my YouTube subscriptions, and imported them into Invidious. The first time I tried, it imported 5 subscriptions out of 50 or so. The second time I tried, it imported 9.
Thinking there might be a problem with the import function, I decided to manually add each subscription. Every time I click “Subscribe,” the button will switch to “Unsubscribe,” then immediately switch back to “Subscribe.” If I look at my subscriptions, it was never added.
My first thought was a problem with the PostgreSQL database, but that wouldn’t explain why some subscriptions work when I import them.
I tried rebooting the container, and it made no difference. I’m running Invidious in a Ubuntu 22.04 LXC container in Proxmox. I installed it manually (not with Docker). It has 100GB of HDD space, 4 CPU cores, and 8GB of memory.
What the hell is going on?
What about using NewPipe instead?
Newpipe is a smartphone app, Invidious is a web frontend. I use the former but comparing the two are like apples and oranges. Clearly OP had their mind set on a web install.
I have ReVanced on my phone, STN on my TVs, and uBlock+SponsorBlock on my PCs. I was looking for an alternative that I could run on a server and would replace the various different apps I’m using. TubeArchivist ended up working perfectly for me; your mileage may vary.
NewPipe is an android app, invidious is a selfhosted service accessed through a website.
They are quite different to blindly suggested the other.I use invidous to embed videos in my rss feeder.
Also the requests to YouTube are made from the server instead of the device.
