I use RSSHub to generate feeds for my subscriptions, then use this trick on Thunderbird to open video links directly with yt-dlp.

I use LocalSend to move the videos (and other files) to VLC.

VLC player

I have a system involving multiple devices. I download the videos with yt-dlp on my computer, then send them to my phone for mobile watching.

It looks like its working now. Thanks for for your help!

Yep. The community pages all provide RSS feeds and Mastodon has them as well.

It’s so nice using it as an all-in-one newsfeed aggregated with everything else.

Thunderbird fails the check. I can’t access communities through my RSS reader.

Is this why Thunderbird is suddenly spouting errors whenever it checks a lemmy.ca feed? I’m not a bot.

EDIT: fixed