Hi, author of the Piped link bot here! I think this is meme great feedback to throw light on some issues on the experience with the bot. 😂 I'll open an issue at https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot to track this later.

Author of Piped (and also a member of TeamNewPipe and LibreTube) here.

I haven't seen any changes from YouTube recently, the ways we fetch age restricted content still seem to work for most videos. However, this method may not work for all videos as YouTube has different levels of age restrictions afaict. I've seen very few videos fall under that category personally.

If anything were to change in the future, I may consider implementing something similar to what this extension does (or use their API) in Piped.

Peertube is based on the Activitypub protocol and can federate with other instances just like Lemmy/Mastodon. Odysee is a decentralized blockchain-based video-sharing platform.

If you'd like to monetize your content, Odysee would be the better option due to its own cryptocurrency for tipping. I personally like Peertube more, as I think it is better moderated against right-wing content.

Peertube and Odysee.

Piped uses the Odysee sync API to find YouTube content already available there, and if so stream it from there. This is also written in the readme on the GitHub :)

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.

Unfortunately, yes since for views to be counted, we have to make some tracking requests to YouTube.

Here's some that I thought about:

• Wikipub
• Wikihive (A bee mascot)
• Academoo (A cow mascot)
• LinkLynx (A lynx with a magnifying glass maybe?)
• Encyclonet

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:

• Subscriptions don't necessarily require an account
• Playlists don't necessarily require an account
• Piped supports Infinite scrolling
• Piped supports Webm videos
• Piped can stream videos from Odysee if the same video is available there.
• Piped is a lot lighter on the server
• Piped always proxies your traffic to Google's servers (most Invidious servers don't proxy videos to YouTube by default)
• Piped has SponsorBlock integrated (DeArrow will be added soon)
• Piped has ReturnYouTubeDislike support via RYD-Proxy
• Piped can only be self-hosted on a server. Invidious on the other hand can work fine on local networks.
• Piped is a lot easier to administer than Invidious as an instance operator.

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 :)

I technically answered this in another post: https://feddit.rocks/comment/39513

I hope it is a good reason to prefer it, but it's your choice at the end of the day :)

Nitter is currently broken due to Elon's draconian rate limits, but it wouldn't be too hard to fork and add support for it! :)

I try doing something productive, like working on developing a new skill, or work on some of my hobby projects. That prevents me from feeling lonely.

Yes, I am :) I'm not a celebrity haha

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. 🤔

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)

Things should be fine from today onwards on the official instance. We're now using a VPN for some (and maybe soon all) traffic to Google.

Oh, I see! I overlooked that you needed an account on the instance to be able to resolve remote communities.

You're welcome! Now, anyone who creates a post/comment with a YouTube link will know about it too :)

Hi there, there's currently an open issue at https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/issues/1090!

I currently have no plans on implementing this feature myself at this point in time, however, community contributions are definitely welcome for this! :)

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.