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What is Grayjay?

Grayjay is a cutting-edge app that serves as a video player and source aggregator. It allows you to stream and organize videos from various sources, providing a unified platform for your entertainment needs.

It's mostly used as a YouTube frontend^. However, it is now launching as a desktop app for Linux, Mac and Windows.

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[–] MITM0 67 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (34 children)

I really wish there was a truly open source version of GrayJay because GrayJay is actually Not OpenSource It's a cool application, don't get me wrong, but it NEEDS to be OpenSource & not "Source-First/Source-Available"

[–] airglow 24 points 1 week ago

Yikes. I'll be sticking with NewPipe and other FOSS apps.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am working on an alternative

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Cannot release yet because I need to "plugin out" the youtube part which was integrated directly into the flutter app in my earlier builds, will be open source

[–] MITM0 1 points 2 days ago

Can we at least get a link to your Repository ?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Grayjay mobile is awesome, very much looking forward to checking this out. Love how it puts all my YouTube, Patreon, Twitch and Peertube content in one place.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

95℅ of the time my Patreon feeds fail to load. This isn't your experience?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

There's an occasional error popup during playback, but the feeds and video still work here. I'm on Grayjay v268 w/ Patreon v17

My biggest issue is Peertube tbh, discovery is difficult, border line useless.

[–] zerozaku 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Why can't they be a website than an app for Dekstop?

Also understood that they're not open-source but are they privacy-respecting?

Edit: Went through their privacy policy and seems they're privacy-focused. I will be trying their app now.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yeah if you know who's behind Futo (Louis Rossman) you will know he fights very hard for better privacy across the board among other things that are better for us consumers.

Edit: Futo being the company behind this app and other privacy respective apps.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

when it comes to right to repair he's amazing. that being said, however, he hasn't had much positive to say about the SteamDeck which is leagues ahead of something like the Nintendo switch in terms of user freedoms and customizability.
Granted that's like one take I disagree with compared to ALL he's done but I'm still surprised he hasn't made a followup about how much good it's done for Linux in general considering he's been using Linux since it was in a physical box lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

the app is source available, it places some restrictions on modifications of the source code, but the code is fully available

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

The peertube app recently launched and its pretty decent for a first release

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Yes, finally! I've been using the mobile app, and it has been nothing but amazing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

It's an alpha release, so expect it to be buggy. Overall this is a good thing. We need more frontends.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

That's awesome. I love the grayjay mobile app. I need more non YouTube creators to follow though

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not yet. Had to manually download.

[–] ownsauce 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I am linux noob, they provided a .zip file for linux. Do I need to use the command line to install it?

[–] WereCat 3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

You just unzip it and run it

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That zip file is just one command away from an appimage

[–] Jayb151 6 points 1 week ago

Mobile app has been the best YouTube app replacement I've found. And I just got the pop up about the desktop app on my drive home from work. Will for sure check it out.

I wish it more closely mirrored YouTube's native video suggestions, but it's pretty damn close.

[–] Matriks404 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

No website version? I hope the desktop app isn't Electron-based then.

Edit: It is. What the fuck?

[–] LordWiggle 3 points 1 week ago
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