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🚀 mj

Apr 30 · 3 weeks ago

5 Comments ↓

💀 requiem · Apr 30 at 21:14:

It's sad what's going on with invidious. Doubly so because I have found it usually quicker and easier to use than piped. Piped often fails to load videos for me when opening an url directly, and 3rd party apps like Yattee can be hit and miss with it. Invidious was much better but YouTube throttling instances was bad.

🍄 Ruby_Witch · May 01 at 10:00:

I'm watching something through Invidious right now... Is this an issue that was fixed quickly, or am I missing something that's obviously wrong?

💀 requiem · May 01 at 12:10:

Every now and then they seem to have outages. I often got "YouTube is Rate Limiting Invidious" or similar messages. But there seems to be a cat-and-mouse game.

Edit: Working for me perfectly now as well

🚀 mj [OP] · May 04 at 14:45:

Youtube has been playing with the api again

🐙 norayr · May 04 at 23:21:

i guess we need to try to depend less on youtube, and use peertube more, watch on peertube and upload to peertube.

it's like with encyclopedia britannica vs wikipedia.

or like viber vs xmpp.

the more you use xmpp, tell people about it and insist that you will only communicate via xmpp, the more you contribute to the open decentralized alternative.

reddit also was tightening the screws on our freedom of using it via third party apps. they need us to use their apps.

so better to not use them at all.

i think it is possible. i think yes, we won't be able to replace the web, but i have limited time. i read things on gemini, therefore i have less for web, including youtube or whatever.