Reddit natively supports RSS feeds as well. The major feature here is comment support IMO.

Is there any way to fling YouTube videos to SmartTube from a smartphone?

That’s the one thing locking me into Kodi.

This is sad. Google Play should never hold this much weight in the self hosted community. For Android users dedicated to open source software, F-Droid is the target.

I don’t think SyncThing users would have much issue with the app disappearing from Google. Doing away with Google is the goal.