PipePipe works for me now with 3.5.0.
this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2024
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It's not in fdroid, yet. Hopefully soon! Thanks!
No it's not. I only found it when I opened PipePipe and it popped up there's a new update. Installed it outside of fdroid
Ah ok cool. I'm glad they have that option.
we really need a FOSS decentralized video sharing platform to take hold
I'd love for that to happen, but without being paid by a central company, content creators won't...create content. Will it work with content creators own sponsors? Mmm...I don't know
Early YouTube was exactly this, though. Content creators creating for the sake of the content. Sponsors helped a lot, sure, but the vast majority did it without them. Also, current YouTube, many content creators don't or can't monetize. They still create.
Yes, you're right. Are we able to go back? I mean, do they want to go back from being paid to almost nothing? And if I'm not mistaken, professional YouTubers produce a quality of videos that didn't exist back in the days.
Lemmy is a good case study, I would say. Reddit was the epitome of "the front page", until it wasn't. Then many moved to Lemmy, and it was just ok for a while. Now it's getting to where Reddit was before it lost its shite. Not a perfect comparison due to the YouTube monetization, I know, but a good rags->riches->enshitified->rags->riches story. And production quality is much less important, IMO, than content. And, yes, content did increase over the years, but a part of that was video editing technology improvement. Let's take LTT as an example. Before monetization, they had low production quality, but incredible content value videos. Now, the production value (and their paychecks) improved a lot, but the content value isn't what it used to be. It's not bad, it's just less focused on what it used to be. Is that bad? Probably not. But it also means we can start over, and get to the same monetization that we're at now, but without enshitification.
Edit: and I'm not even touching "influencers" in the main comment, who, IMO, don't matter in the grand scheme. They can stay on yt or disappear completely. In fact, if they did disappear, it would make a significant positive impact to the overall content library.
Does someone know why Grayjay works perfectly?
I don't believe they don't use the YouTube API. So the changes Google might make wouldn't necessarily affect Grayjay.
Where else should I publish videos as well as youtube?
Not entirely sure. I would say PeerTube, maybe? There are others, like Odysee, but they tend to have interesting communities (to stay within rules of conduct). But YouTube was similar in its early days, too, so :shrug:
My recommendation is PeerTube.
Edit: replied to the wrong comment. Sorry, mate. Moved it to the right chain.
Yup, Google are launching their yearly attempt to convince folks YouTube premium is worth it.
Think of this time not as an annoyance, but as a time to reflect on how shitty Google has become.
Lol I don't need this to remind me. I already know and think of it (regrettably) often.
Most Piped instances are also not working because they use NewPipe Extractor under the hood.
As someone else said in this thread, I have also temporarily switched to FreeTube for Android, because a few of the Invidious instances are still working fine.
The nice thing about the FOSS world is that it's pretty easy to import subscriptions and other stuff from NewPipe to FreeTube.
I hope this YouTube fuckery is handled soon. I love NewPipe way more every time it successfully deals with the YT weirdos.
Yo! Grayjay still works!
Edit: I didn't realize people were so sensitive about alternative options. I'm not a NewPipe developer, so I can't fix it, but I have confirmed that as of right now it isn't working.
Use whatever app works for you, IDGAF
I don't have any opinion on grayjay but this is the open source community and grayjay is proprietary. That's the only reason I downvoted your comment
Feel free to use it if it works for you but I think it's poor form to advertise proprietary products in a thread about a free software project.
Their source code is available online silly. You can recompile it however you want, you just can't redistribute it.
https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android
Edit: They also now have an F-Droid repository.
@over_clox Which means it's not open-source, silly, because open-source explicitly means you can redistribute it.
It casts?! I'm sold!
But I'm not sure how i feel about downloading an apk like that.
Hey, it's a damn fine app, but at the same time don't take my word on it..
I am tired of big company bullshit. I don't care anymore. YouTube was the only big brother service which I can't replace but now I don't give a single fuck.(They IP blocked me on their official site)
You used a VPN... Right?
Nope, Now I use VPN if I have to watch something Goddamn I didn't have static IP.
They IP blocked me on their official site
So,... What did you do?
Just watch on their website without account. That's all.
Damn, same here. I copied the error report, YouTube is apparently being fucky again...
Exception
- User Action: play stream
- Request: Player error[type=ERROR_CODE_IO_BAD_HTTP_STATUS] occurred while playing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
- Content Country: US
- Content Language: en-US
- App Language: en_US
- Service: YouTube
- Version: 0.27.0
- OS: Linux motorola/lake_revvl_n/lake_n:10/QPW30.142-Q3-28-25/4cbcf:user/release-keys 10 - 29
com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlaybackException: Source error
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleIoException(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:644)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.ExoPlayerImplInternal.handleMessage(ExoPlayerImplInternal.java:616)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:103)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:241)
at android.os.HandlerThread.run(HandlerThread.java:67)
Caused by: com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.HttpDataSource$InvalidResponseCodeException: Response code: 403
at org.schabi.newpipe.player.datasource.YoutubeHttpDataSource.open(YoutubeHttpDataSource.java:422)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.DefaultDataSource.open(DefaultDataSource.java:263)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.TeeDataSource.open(TeeDataSource.java:52)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.openNextSource(CacheDataSource.java:796)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.cache.CacheDataSource.open(CacheDataSource.java:609)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.StatsDataSource.open(StatsDataSource.java:84)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.source.chunk.InitializationChunk.load(InitializationChunk.java:99)
at com.google.android.exoplayer2.upstream.Loader$LoadTask.run(Loader.java:412)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:919)
Do you have a link to the main tracking issue with NewPipe? I tried to look through their GitHub repo, but most of the issues I saw were about the 59-second bug, or they had been closed as duplicate without linking to the duplicate issue.
I have a 1.5 hour commute, and watching downloaded videos on NewPipe is a major part of my strategy for getting through it.
I don't think that's the right issue. The behavior I see is a network error toast message that says check the notification for details (with no notification). This issue says the behavior is the "content unavailable" screen, which I don't see.
Piped and Yewtu.be as well.
My local Piped instance still works.
That's good. Maybe there will be a fix soon.
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