At the moment, I haven’t integrate Youlag with FreshRSS as a full fledge extension, but once that is in place, it would be possible to store user preferences. While it requires time and effort, I believe it shouldn’t be too hard to implment this feature.

I suggest using the extension “YouTubeChannel2RssFeed”, with this, you don’t have to manually convert the youtube channel links to RSS feed links.

With YouTubeChannel2RssFeed installed, you can simply use the url: https://www.youtube.com/@somechannel and it will add it as https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id={id_goes_here}.

Edit: Link to extension

I believe what you might be referring to was reported here: https://github.com/civilblur/youlag/issues/2

The workaround was to enable the User JS extension first, and then the User CSS. This order requirement will be fixed in the next update, and the README has been updated.

If the page looks like it is constantly loading, you can open up the inspect mode on your browser, then add the CSS class youlag-loaded to the body element. This will allow you to manually exit out of the loading state.

Please note that there is nothing in the Youlag extension that can or will inherently corrupt your FreshRSS instance, so all your data is safe.

No worries! This setup ended up working better than I thought, and I’ve been using it as my primary way of interfacing with youtube.

Addressing the subscribing part; I had similar requirements, so I started subscribing via FreshRSS while using a custom theme to give it a YouTube-like experience.

I shared the setup a few month ago here: https://lemmy.world/post/21381606

Edit: One of the benefits of using selfhosted RSS with a web interface is that it is platform agnostic.