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by poetril 812 days ago
Many of the creators I follow upload first, or alongside nebula. I’ve been using it to try and reduce my YouTube watch time with great success.
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What's nebula's setup like for accessing content? e.g. can a paid subscriber get a RSS feed(s) with direct URLs to download the videos?
They have rss feeds[0] but it looks like it's more for notifications of new content or creators rather than direct downloads for the videos/podcasts. I don't think they'd implement something like direct downloads but idk.

ETA: Accessing content on nebula, I have my feed of videos from the creators to which I subscribe and I select videos to watch from there. It's basic but as someone who never got into watching youtube (I bookmarked channels on invidious instances and looked for new videos there) it's pretty good. They're also open to feature requests and are improving the site.

[0] https://blog.nebula.tv/rss-feed/

Nebula does not have comments though, it is more like a creator managed Netflix.
While Firefox doesn't surface them anymore, I checked the page source and there are indeed per-channel feeds. They don't have direct video URLs, but yt-dlp claims to support Nebula, so you may be able to automate it.