Did the others all decide to quit or is there a practical reason?

  • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    8 days ago

    YouTube has been cracking down on alternative frontends.

    Vanilla Invidious currently doesn’t work well,
    so most hosters paused and/or gave up.

    Fijxu runs a fork of Invidious,
    with their own modifications implemented to circumvent the blocks,
    here’s the source code if you’re interested:
    https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidious

    I’ve got big respect for Fijxu,
    he’s been doing a very good job of keeping Invidious alive + fighting against the YouTube crackdown lately, basically all on his own.

    If you can please consider:

    All the above can help Fijxu,
    since currently he’s mostly fighting a big tech giant all on his own.

    • Cris16228@lemmy.today
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      8 days ago

      Vanilla Invidious currently doesn’t work well, so most hosters paused and/or gave up.

      This is the reason why I stopped to host my own. It’s so painful to maintain

    • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
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      8 days ago

      I think the best thing to do is selfhosting your own instance :/ piped is doing a great job with their script to install with docker ! Yes I know this takes away the privacy feature allowing google to get your public IP and other annoying metadata… However all the rest works as expected !

      It has some quirks right now though… But they are very close in solving the issue (already done with LibreTube ).

    • Novaling@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Even YT on browser for both my tablet and laptop have gotten mad at me and thrown a hissy for forcing me to login. Less of a problem on my Laptop, because I use Freetube to watch on there, and on my Phone I use Revanced. But man, I just hate watching on my Kindle now, because that shit is old and can barely run Firefox (got it via aurora store, not even in the Amazon appstore 😭) and YT on browser is ass. I tried NewPipe and it crashed all the time, so I got the for PipePipe cause I’m a weeabo, and it worked well but now I get the blocked IP every other day. My tablet crashed when I tried to download Revanced YT on there, so I gave up.

  • firepenny@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Best thing you can do is host it yourself, and keep it private. Doing this has helped with preventing with IPs getting blocked.