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charcircuit on March 15, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: A personal YouTube frontend based on yt-d...

Why limit it to local? You could use the API for the YouTube recommendations. You already are using the YouTube API for the videos themselves.

toomuchtodo on March 15, 2025 [–]

Certainly, ingest all the signal you’d like, and then emit a feed for clients to consume (or to be republished). Could run locally, could run in a container, could run on an AT protocol PDS. It is an algorithm/discovery/recommendation sovereignty play.

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