When it works I’ll use piped and shit, but half the time it doesn’t work lmao
In my experience, that’s being a bit generous.
That’s has to do with the backend server that’ve been chosen at the preference page. Servers becomes unavailable all the time, and the frontend don’t change a server when it happens. Just choose a few servers that works well and you trust, and switch back and forth when needed.
This is a bit of me-thing, but yeah, I’m annoyed that YouTube is the way it is. It’s non-trivial to embed videos from there without violating the GDPR, so embedded videos are basically not a thing these days on general-purpose social media.
And personally, I also want to avoid the tracking from clicking through to a YouTube video and Google encourages long-ass videos, so I always hesitate before clicking through. Also, people without ad blockers go through a completely different circle of hell before a video starts.
Basically, I miss the days when memes could just be short videos. Where everyone could see on the embed that, oh, it’s a 30 second video, I can watch that. And then they’d just click play, without leaving the page.
I do understand that likely no one would care to provide the bandwidth for dumb meme videos on PeerTube either. But yeah, I just dream of that being a thing.
One advantage of linking a YouTube video in an aggregator setting is if the video goes viral, everyone is spamming Google’s server for delivery instead of hammering smaller services. Video is pretty expensive, so for now I see no issue abusing YouTube (assuming everyone here is already ad-blocking & DNS sinking anyhow).
Yeah, those 300-odd lemmy uses are really gonna be a huge burden on Google’s resources
Implying Lemmy is the only link aggregator? There are others, informal group & DM sharing as well.
Ended up installing newpipe (or other app of your choice) and set it as the default app for YouTube video links 🤷 Edit: and of course you can set it as default for other sites, including peertube
Where can I find newpipe?
You can download it on f-droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
NewPipe is the MVP. my partner played a link on regular YT the other day and there were five ads for a ~20 minute video. absolutely disgusting.
Oh boy, can’t wait to see what someone commented on my post
Grayjay, Freetube and Newpipe work.
So just use Googles resources, build decentralized identities (@ all content creators!) and you are just fine for the dooms day when Youtube uses DRM or something
I’m out of the loop on this. I’ve seen piped bot and looked into peertube a bit, what’s the appeal of it? Is it mainly to avoid ads?
I believe peertube is part of the fediverse
That piped bot is great, and highly appreciated by me.
from experience, none of yall click on anything but the youtube link.
What experience?
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