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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Meme

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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[–] TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I have never successfully run any piped video on any platform. Literally every pipedbot post has been worthless, at best, and usually actively frustrating as I'd actually use an alternative youtube frontend.

Dear pipedbots: blow me. Dear ReVanced: ❤️

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, if you'll advertise a service like that, it should work already. Otherwise, odds are I (and other people too, probably) will click it two or three times, then give up. If I see future links, I'll remember that it didn't work, be biased to not even try anymore, and potentially never notice if it actually did improve and start working.

It's a common FOSS / Privacy-respecting-service issue, where someone will create something out of ideology, but the result will have poor usability, and unless you're really really invested into the ideology yourself, you'll probably stop using it because your free time is too precious to spend on getting frustrated over stuff that works poorly.

I feel the FOSS / Privacy Alternatives community needs to learn the lesson many bic companies have learned already or are learning now, that the quality of the User Experience is important in retaining people. Ideology can get them to try, but functionality and ease of use will keep them from running back to Google et al.

I just fired it up a new Piped instance to see if it would work. Result:

God this bot sucks.

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

YES. What the fuck piped? Work and I’ll use you.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same experience, not from a lack of trying but I finally blocked the bot this week.

I blocked it about 2 weeks ago. Best decision I've made on Lemmy

[–] Rekonok@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Worked fine for a month then nothing on every instances

I use Invidious now and it have a button to swich instances in case it buffering too long

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Their replies are too long. Why aren't they like two lines at max? They space out real conversations.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm sure it's useful to some but I just ended up blocking it

[–] greenskye@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same. Also all those tldr bots too

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

"The article was 7945 words long and was shortened to 248 words."

Yeah, I'm sure I'm not missing out on anything bud

[–] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago

Padme: Because you read the article, right?

[–] klemptor@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Welp I don't know why that never occurred to me, I feel like a moran.

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Also armed with a pipebomb

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I knew what it was but I had to click