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is the app good and lightweight ? my phone only has 1GB of ram and and a CPU with erectile dysfunction
Uh sorry, is there a good way to tell RAM usage on a different phone with more RAM? I didn't find any usage number in the settings. It's a ~50MB app. So at leat they didn't include as much bloat as other apps do... You can try it. It allows you do watch videos right away, without signing up.
Sadly I think not , Android is quite an awful OS almost in every regard to performance I think the only way to see RAM Usage is threw the Developer tools and logging
The Official App requires about 170MB RAM while watching a Video. Not sure about CPU usage but it seems light enough. NewPipe, the YouTube client, also allows you to browse PeerTube and is very light in my experience (RAM usage is about the same though)
I don't understand the question; the Fediverse has nothing to do with apps. Apps are just frontends that access services. But you asked for a YouTube alternative, and for that, your phone's hardware is completely irrelevant.
Or are you planning on installing a PeerTube instance on your phone?
I think they want to know if there is a PeerTube client (ideally an "official" one) that runs on such a weak phone.
They might be talking about the Peertube app.
yes I understand , I asked about the app after I asked about the replacement basically I want the that front end to access a YT replacement no , I'm not planning to run a PeerTube instance on my phone
Check out NewPipe. or PipePipe for automatic ad skipping. Does YouTube and PeerTube. "Share" video links from a PeerTube site with it to open it in the app.