Good to hear that :) Inviting the bot definitely helps it reach more communities, so thanks for that!
Good to hear that :) Inviting the bot definitely helps it reach more communities, so thanks for that!
I would try looking at the JavaScript console for errors, and the network tab for issues with requests. Something seems oddly wrong, unfortunately.
If the Peertube developers find a way to make a way to find the same content there through some metadata, we could support it easily, but currently, there isn’t anything.
There shouldn’t be any, is this on iOS for the setup?
You can find more information at https://feddit.rocks/comment/39147, it tries to look all over Lemmy, but doesn’t have enough communities to scan :/
You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format !community@instance.tld
and it will try joining it :)
You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format !community@instance.tld
and it will try joining it :)
Yes, that’s somewhat the point. You can see it in action in this comment. Rather than replace, it allows people to see a Piped link too instead of YouTube one.
Here’s a really cool YouTube video: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ (the bot will reply to this)
Piped can be more privacy friendly in a few cases, as you don’t need an account for subscriptions or playlists.
Here are some differences to Invidious:
I’ll conclude by saying that I was once an Invidious user. I decided to write Piped at a time when Invidious was riddled with extremely odd bugs and performance issues. Some of these issues still persist to this day. I’ve always kept performance a top priority in Piped. I wanted to create a better alternative to YouTube than Invidious for my use case and threat model. I think I have succeeded in that :)
Currently, it scans all posts that are federated with my Lemmy instance (feddit.rocks
), however, there are very few communities that it is scanning currently as there are very few users who have subscribed to communities on my instance.
If more people register on my Lemmy instance and subscribe to more communities, it will scan those communities as well.
I hope more users register on my instance so it can be listed on https://join-lemmy.org/instances too :) I currently lack the 5 active users requirement for that, unfortunately.
Alternatively, I could maybe add a way for people to get the bot to subscribe to a community, so people from other instances can add communities to be scanned. 🤔
You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format !community@instance.tld
and it will try joining it :)
I will say I saw your bot, triple comment on a post.
Is that in error? If so, could you give me a link to that? I could try fixing that then!
Is Piped something that you have to self host
No, you don’t have to self-host it. You have a large number of public instances hosted generously by people! You may want to however self-host it however if you don’t live close to an instance, or want to actually own your own data.
Are there instances out there that this redirects to or a single server?
You can switch instances directly from the preferences page. You don’t need to change your URL for switching instances.
Is it a sort of P2P thing where different servers host different videos or parts of different videos?
No, Piped has no P2P aspects at all. What you describe is technically infeasible/difficult since we don’t store videos at all, just proxying them.
How will this be affected by Youtube cracking down on adblockers?
Time will tell, so far we aren’t affected. But, we could be affected when it fully rolls out rather than as an A/B test.
You have a similar project for Android called Libretube :) Here’s a list of projects that use Piped’s API: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped#made-with-piped
You can just change the hostname, for example, youtube.com
to piped.video
. Alternatively, you could just use something like Libredirect to automatically do it on your browser.
I don’t think the current Lemmy clients allow hiding bots, but if they really bother you/people that much, it should possible to add options to hide bots altogether.
I currently host the official instance, which is entirely run by donations. However, there are many community instances people can switch to in the preferences menu on the site. They are listed at https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances
You’re welcome! Now, anyone who creates a post/comment with a YouTube link will know about it too :)
It’s on top near the post, which looks like a clipboard and is just right off the star/favorite button.
Author of Piped here.
I think it is quite unlikely for YouTube to implement a DRM for watching videos. In anyways, we will keep fighting collaboratively as long as we can.
The most likely way YouTube probably will affect us currently is if they decide to log in wall their platform like how Twitter did.