Get RSS feeds for services that don't offer it themselves.

RSS Box by Stefan Sundin, supports:

• Twitter (a better option may be Nitter)
• Youtube (YT actually offers RSS feed per channel, also consider Invidious)
• Vimeo
• Instagram (another option is Bibliogram)
• Periscope
• SoundCloud
• Mixcloud
• Twitch
• Speedrun
• Dailymotion
• Imgur
• SVT Play

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming. Windows, Mac or Linux.

I heard about it just recently, and in short order stumbled on a number of interesting ideas:

• The OBS Screen Timer Zoom Trick, CogDog
• OBS Livestreaming vs Zoom for Dynamic A/Synchronous Teaching, anth101
• Hosting Studio20 using OBS with Zoom, EdTechFactotum

Podcast (Hanselminutes) with OBS project lead Hugh Bailey (July 2020)

Plugins

https://obs.ninja

Free and open source PDF readers. A list by the FSFE.

OPSIN is the (open source) standard for parsing IUPAC names.

OPSIN source code is on Github

Fraidycat is a desktop app or browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. You can use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose - Twitter, a blog, YouTube, Instagram or even on a public TiddlyWiki.

So it's like a feed reader, and if you use your browser sync functionality, it will sync between your devices. Really worth trying out this concept, especially if you don't want to setup your own web-based feed reader. The built-in (and increasing) support for many non-RSS sources is also nice.

Fraidycat video

Code: https://github.com/kickscondor/fraidycat

• No ads
• No need to create a Google account
• Tools for managing subscriptions:
• Adds ability to listen only to audio
• No need for YouTube app in order to listen to videos on mobile
• No need to "ding" bell, just being subscribed is enough to receive all notifications
• No age-gate
• Dark mode (although YouTube has this now too)
• Free software (AGPL v3 LICENSE)

Invidition, a Firefox add-on that automatically redirects Youtube videos (also embeds) to an Invidious instance of your choice.

But a better Firefox add-on is Privacy Redirect. Apart from handling Youtube redirects and many other services, it also automatically redirects to a random Invidious instance so as to avoid overloading any single one (I find it works better than Invidition).

See Invidious Instances for a list of publicly available instances

"Small acts of resistance are all we need. Together, we make change", Yarmo Mackenbach
https://old.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/8wvazc/invidous_alternative_frontend_to_youtube/
https://github.com/omarroth/invidious