Depending on your configuration your experience will differ greatly.

As mentioned in another comment I made, Freetube relies heavily on either directly connecting to YouTube’s API or proxying through an Invidious instance, perhaps try a different Invidious instance, but in my case Freetube + Invidious works 9 times out of 10 for me.

There are two ways of using Freetube, either with YouTube’s APi or with Invidious’s APi.

When using YouTube’s APi you won’t get the same ad-blocking and proxying benefits compared to Invidious’s API.

One bonus of using Invidious is that your traffic is combined with everyone else’s who use that same instance, for example if you use https://inv.nadeko.net/ your traffic will be masked along side everyone else’s who happens to use that same instance making it harder for big corporations to track you, in this case Google.

I think he just left to go work on fulu, no bad blood as far as i'm concerned. Anyways grayjay is pretty good, and when the new newpipe comes out that might be an even better choice maybe (but who knows when that'll be?? Tell me).

Ya, there's no way Apple would allow it in their app store

I think I know who you are talking about, I recall seeing something about her making more money posting on pornhub than youtube because of greater advertising sharing or something.

Afaik pornhub actually pays way more than YouTube. There are also lots of people uploading SFW content to the hub.

We're talking about youtube competition, self hosting isnt ever going to compete with youtube.

you know who else has documentaries?

PBS.

support your local public broadcasting stations, people.

I just avoid algorithms. If I want documentaries there are places for those.