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It would be stupid, but very funny if someone created a YouTube bot for Piped links...
They'd get into an endless loop of responding to each other. Just a regular internet conversation then
Like when the reddit lotr bots get stuck in a loop.
Needed one the other day because the post only had the Piped one and Piped never loads for me. When it briefly used to load then it would buffer constantly.
Hot take: Piped API sucks and is a giant waste of resources (unless you're running your own instance)
What is it exactly?
It's a proxy to access YouTube privately. But all the servers are overloaded.
What does that have to do with the API though? You said that the API sucks I'm curious about that part. I understand thinking the public instances suck because they can never keep up and get overloaded but your original comment said that the API itself was bad somehow.
By API I think he meant the default API endpoint, not the API specification
I agree. I've had to switch instances so many times, it's frustrating.
I found Piped to be way too slow. Use Freetube instead.
I'm vibing with invidious
I blocked it because Piped never seems to work.
Do content creators get views if I watch a video through any of the front-ends?
Content creators get almost nothing from ads. You're better off donating $5 to their buymeacoffee or patreon or similar, etc.
That's not true and I don't know where this comes from. Ask anyone who actually is successful on YouTube and they will tell you YouTube ads pay quite well and their revenue share is very favorable.
Content creators barely get anything anyway
Imo piped fucking sucks and the page barely loads
That's why I blocked it.
BILF
You can block users.
It's a meme, not a support ticket 😅
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
Idk, might need the little guy if uBlock loses the war on YouTube.
NewPipe
Newpipe uses the piped API
actually, both use the newpipe extractor https://newpipe.net/FAQ/download/#download-youtube-api https://docs.piped.video/docs/architecture/
Oh, ok, ty
That's great for mobile. Desktop I don't like using piped.video because it's ugly and slow so I just grab link from there then use yt-dlp + mpv.
newpipe is only on android...
Just post piped links then loser.
What is the etiquette for posting YT links in this scenario? If the content is from YT I'd prefer to post the canonical link instead of a mirror that may go down or may get hugged to death. If you'd rather view on a mirror I'd suggest you use e.g. LibRedirect. Does this make sense? Are there better ideas? I'd like to promote non-YT frontends but am not sure what the best option here would be.
Piped is not a mirror, it's just like a backdoor access to the original YouTube video.
So if you can access it on YT, you can access it on Piped
So if you can access it on YT, you can access it on Piped
Unless Piped dies
Piped can't die. It's just software. Maybe one instance can "die" and go offline for some reason but there are thousands more.
Same for Invidious.
Oh, I thought it's a single website. My bad
The bot OP is talking about links to a single website. But the code running the site is used to run many sites like it. Similar to how Lemmy works.
That's my understanding, anyway. I haven't looked too much into it, so I could be wrong.