I’ve been using Invidious and NewPipe to watch YouTube for a long time. I don’t use an account with either of these. However, I’m wanting to get recommendations based on what I watch and my subscriptions. LibreTube looked promising but it no longer works. When I try to watch videos it won’t play. YouTube Vanced is dead. Not sure if another viable solution exists.

  • Free Palestine 🇵🇸@sh.itjust.works
    181·
    1 year ago

    LibreTube looked promising but it no longer works.

    You just need to switch to another Piped instance in the settings. You need to click on the three dots, then select settings, go to ‘Instance’ and at the top you can hit ‘Choose…’ to change the Piped instance. I haven’t experienced any issues with adminforge.de. kavin.rocks also seems to work well.

          • Zastyion345@lemmy.ml
            11·
            1 year ago

            Bruh, you are either unlucky or your ip itself may be bad and gets blocked by cloudflare wich i think the piped.video and kavin.rocks are using.

            I selfhost my instance too at home with a VPN for the api and video proxy and its nearly flawless.

              • Zastyion345@lemmy.ml
                1·
                1 year ago

                I didnt say that i allways use my instance, i use some of the public ones too with very few being slow due to many people using them. If one doesn’t work try another.

                https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances

                The underlying issue is youtube rate limiting the video proxy, so if the instance is trying to play 10 videos at once it will get ratelimited.

                The solution to such problem is either complicated or simple. The simple one is try to convince your favorite creators to use other platform then youtube for example peertube, Odysee or rumbl.

    • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
      141·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, let’s see what the FUTO guys come up with. AFAIK they’re still struggling with licensing, getting an issue tracker running and quite some basic stuff. And I think YouTube won’t like what they’re doing. But I like that someone tries.

        • rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
          1·
          1 year ago

          Rly? Last time I checked most of their projects had a temporary license and Louis said they needed to figure out how to prevent something like with NewPipe from happening. Did they find a final license in the meantime?

          Do they read the Github? All I see is people not understanding the source is somewhere else and saying xy isn’t open source. And I don’t see anyone from FUTO intervening or posting. It’s mainly the community amongst themselves in the issues… Or did I miss something?