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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

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

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

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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: ❤️

[-] TheFriar@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Talaraine@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

I had to really work with it to find a handful that actually showed video. Even then, they're hit and miss, sometimes requiring pings to remind them that I exist.

Then you get to the throttling...

I've never had any trouble playing videos with NewPipe + Sponsorblock on Android.

In a desktop browser it's trickier, but Libredirect helps immensely to redirect to a working instance on the occasion that one of them is down/doesn't play the video

I don't rely on any bots. I'd recommend unchecking "show bot accounts." I know some people find a few of them helpful, and I don't want to sound ungrateful to the people who've developed them, but they mostly just clutter up the threads in my experience

[-] deo@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

does hiding bot accounts hide both comments and posts? I don't mind bot comments, but bot posts are annoying because they can be quite spammy and never have any activity (at least that i've seen). so far, i've just been user-blocking them as i see them...

Yes, it hides all bot activity whatsoever.

[-] Rekonok@sh.itjust.works 6 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

[-] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Huh, I wonder what the issue is. I e clicked on many of them and never had a problem with the video starting, though I suppose I’ve heard there were problems recently (as in perhaps YouTube has been hampering it).

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have issues sometimes, and others it works perfectly. I think they've got networks issues that need to be worked out.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 year ago

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

[-] coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.youtube.com/live/qfDq5dlp2o4

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

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

[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 29 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.youtube.com/live/qfDq5dlp2o4

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

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

[-] worldwidewave@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.youtube.com/live/qfDq5dlp2o4

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

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

[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 11 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.youtube.com/live/qfDq5dlp2o4

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

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

[-] DuskyRo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.youtube.com/live/qfDq5dlp2o4

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

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

[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 11 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.youtube.com/live/qfDq5dlp2o4

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

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

[-] chaklun@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I don't get it. Isn't this bot supposed to redirect YouTube videos to piped? Why it just copy paste a YouTube link?

[-] Unanimous_anonymous@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

The link is to a piped video. The link is named after whatever the original hyperlink used. If it was labeled "butt penis" the piped bot would have a link "butt penis" as well.

[-] chaklun@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

For me its not. It's just open YouTube for me.

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

Bot is broken for a long time where are the developers?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

...watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

[-] FrancisFeliz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

You gotta be kidding me, i was rickrolled with a Piped link.

[-] Balthazar@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

I don't know why, but reading this made me Hella excited to get rickrolled xD

[-] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] klemptor@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] greenskye@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Same. Also all those tldr bots too

[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 15 points 1 year ago

Padme: Because you read the article, right?

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 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

[-] the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago
[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 9 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

You're all stupid. See, they're gonna be lookin' for army guys.

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

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

[-] mo_lave@reddthat.com 9 points 1 year ago

Also armed with a pipebomb

[-] victron@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

We should call them that.

[-] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I knew what it was but I had to click

[-] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago
[-] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 4 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://www.youtube.com/live/grond

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

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

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