cross-posted from: https://feddit.rocks/post/3214

So I created an open-source Lemmy bot to reply to posts/comments with YouTube links with converted Piped links to preserve your privacy.

Piped is an open-source alternative privacy-friendly frontend to YouTube. You can watch the same content from YouTube without connecting to Google’s servers.

You can find the source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot

You can find Piped’s source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

PS: I’m the author of Piped :P

  • Monomate@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If Piped is basically a proxy to access YouTube videos, who pays for this proxy (which shouldn’t be cheap)?

    • averyminya@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I signed up for it sometime last week. Created an account, subbed to about 50 channels and organized them with the categories you can make. Well, unfortunately I guess there was some bug where logging in and viewing trending and feed was happening. Submitted a bug report with details, one other also had the issue, within 2 days they said there was a fix out. Within 14 hours after that I saw the reflected changes! Was able to login to my account again and everything was still there. Been rock solid ever since!

  • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Just tried Piped for the first time and was sold when I got a page full of actually relevant search results instead of 6 relevant search results and then a bunch of garbage like I get on regular YouTube. Nicely done. 👍