Better yet, check out NewPipe on F-Droid. :^)

You’re so consistent on the She-ra memes lately, OP, I hecking love it :P

I can hear the Luma eating, what a nice little jingle.

Missed the chance for the title “There will never be a second Second Life,” real shame.

Your redirect idea would probably work excellently as a browser extension — there are are redirect extensions like that for Mastodon already, actually.

As for the domain… the only thing I can think of would be, like you said, a Lemmy instance.

From what I understand, opening a port isn’t a risk in and of itself — it’s only a risk if the software using the port is insecure! So long as you use reliable software and take care to configure things properly (following through with instructions from a site like ArchWiki or the official documentation helps), you’re good.

CloudFlare is more for DDOS protection, which you almost certainly don’t need . You could always set up DDOS protection later on, if the need ever arises.

there are far fewer users than on Reddit—so it’s kind of quiet over there right now

I don’t even… on my server’s “new” feed, I’m getting posts every minute. Literally. I have no idea how that’s “quiet” lol

Yea, output’ll vary widly based on context. Heck, even if you start from scratch with identical prompts, output’ll still be randomized.