It should be back now! I’ve migrated it to a new server earlier today since the old one had some issues.

https://www.smry.ai/proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scientificamerican.com%2Farticle%2Fev-batteries-are-dangerous-to-repair-heres-why-mechanics-are-doing-so-anyway

(no paywall)

Zorin OS, which was the second distro I ever tried, I hated how outdated their repos were since they were using an older Ubuntu LTS repository for packages. It was quite painful to install software that would otherwise have worked out-of-the-box on Ubuntu. I hope this is no longer the case today.

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.

Should be fixed, I pushed a fix yesterday! :)

Hey, thanks for the message! I’ve fixed the issue already, which was caused by a regression in one of my changes. To prevent this from happening in the future, I’ve added unit tests for the same. Sorry for the inconvenience caused!

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.

Would you like to add feddit.rocks? It’s a lemmy instance run by me :)

Good to hear that :) Inviting the bot definitely helps it reach more communities, so thanks for that!

I would try looking at the JavaScript console for errors, and the network tab for issues with requests. Something seems oddly wrong, unfortunately.

There shouldn’t be any, is this on iOS for the setup?

You can find more information at https://feddit.rocks/comment/39147, it tries to look all over Lemmy, but doesn’t have enough communities to scan :/

You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format !community@instance.tld and it will try joining it :)

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 will say I saw your bot, triple comment on a post.

Is that in error? If so, could you give me a link to that? I could try fixing that then!

Is Piped something that you have to self host

No, you don’t have to self-host it. You have a large number of public instances hosted generously by people! You may want to however self-host it however if you don’t live close to an instance, or want to actually own your own data.

Are there instances out there that this redirects to or a single server?

You can switch instances directly from the preferences page. You don’t need to change your URL for switching instances.

Is it a sort of P2P thing where different servers host different videos or parts of different videos?

No, Piped has no P2P aspects at all. What you describe is technically infeasible/difficult since we don’t store videos at all, just proxying them.

How will this be affected by Youtube cracking down on adblockers?

Time will tell, so far we aren’t affected. But, we could be affected when it fully rolls out rather than as an A/B test.

You have a similar project for Android called Libretube :) Here’s a list of projects that use Piped’s API: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped#made-with-piped

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

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 currently host the official instance, which is entirely run by donations. However, there are many community instances people can switch to in the preferences menu on the site. They are listed at https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances