I understood your case, so I don’t know if this will helps anyhow, but I just wanted to suggest https://lemmyverse.net/communities as well.

Really great site to search for communities and instances, with available filtering.

This! Given the premiss that you still use YouTube and not invidious or piped, there’s no need to have another app on your cellphone (unless you really like it, and enjoy the app customization that revanced allows to for instance).

Mull + uBlock Origin+ SponsorBlock + script in uBlock to hide Shorts, I feel you don’t need anything else :)

Great news! Does anyone know how does this compare to this one?

https://github.com/kaangiray26/geddit-app