Rarely I have issues with both brave and newpipe but it's almost always with an outdated version that's no longer effective because of updates to youtube.

I also frequently use yt-dlp but that also needs to be up to date.

Youtube is the only mainstream social media I've ever cared about. Some of the channels I watch have started posting to odysee too but many still only exist on youtube. Hopefully one day the fediverse is where everyone worth following ends up, it's cozy here because of admins like graf.