gkpy

+1 for RSS but it doesn't really replace the comments. granted on reddit the quality of discussion has for sure declined and lemmy is still a little dead sometimes. but it still provides value (to me)

someone should build a distributed comment system that works with plain old RSS feeds

meanwhile random residential internet speeds in tokyo beating out every consumer connection available in my area (and country I assume):

mpv has an integration with ytdl (and forks), which should let you just open the url and stream it directly