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My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/technology
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With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they're doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn't be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won't be able to soon.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Frankly, I've had it with band-aid solutions like alt clients. Gonna say it now: if you claim to be a FLOSS/open web supporting creator and you're still exclusively using YouTube, you obviously value revenue over FLOSS or open web. Yes I'm gatekeeping FLOSS/open web with that statement, but corporate tech is actively trying to destroy both, and if you side with them, why shouldn't you be called out for it? Don't have to quit YouTube IMO, but at least mirror on Peertube if you care.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I'm subscribed to 94 channels on PeerTube and get barely one new video to watch every 2 days. This is both a problem that the people just don't post anything but also that for some reason new videos just don't show up even if I subscribe to them, that especially happens with TILvids channels for some reason.

Also here is the very short list of PeerTube instances I found which are not about conspiracy theories or nazi shit: