Did the others all decide to quit or is there a practical reason?

  • Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    YouTube has been cracking down on alternative frontends.

    Vanilla Invidious currently doesn’t work well,
    so most hosters paused and/or gave up.

    Fijxu runs a fork of Invidious,
    with their own modifications implemented to circumvent the blocks,
    here’s the source code if you’re interested:
    https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidious

    I’ve got big respect for Fijxu,
    he’s been doing a very good job of keeping Invidious alive + fighting against the YouTube crackdown lately, basically all on his own.

    If you can please consider:

    All the above can help Fijxu,
    since currently he’s mostly fighting a big tech giant all on his own.

    • Cris16228@lemmy.today
      3·
      3 months ago

      Vanilla Invidious currently doesn’t work well, so most hosters paused and/or gave up.

      This is the reason why I stopped to host my own. It’s so painful to maintain

    • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
      0·
      3 months ago

      I think the best thing to do is selfhosting your own instance :/ piped is doing a great job with their script to install with docker ! Yes I know this takes away the privacy feature allowing google to get your public IP and other annoying metadata… However all the rest works as expected !

      It has some quirks right now though… But they are very close in solving the issue (already done with LibreTube ).

          • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            3 months ago

            I mean I’m just trying to help.

            Just so you know, this attitude is signing the “I acknowledge I’m stepping in shit and have no right to complain when shit gets on me later” line.

            I’m not trying to side with your boss here, this advice is for your own good.

  • LeTak@lemm.ee
    1·
    3 months ago

    There is also nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev But I don’t know where I found it.