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    • JOduMonT
      JOduMonT last edited by girish

      so they claim to be an alternative front-end to YouTube but I feel it is more like a proxy, such as Searx do for Google Search.

      I'm really pro Free/Libre Open Source and believe in decentralization but let's face it, these 2 things are like a cult and/or a religion, you have to practice to be a believer.

      Anyway my point is I love the idea of PeerTube (but if they reach 1% of the crowd of YouTube this will be a big success) and after watching this video about YouTube I felt it must be a way to being able to access the content of YouTube without sacrificing our privacy, then I found Invidious.

      they invidiously have a docker image and a docker-compose file

      Repo: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

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      • girish
        girish Staff last edited by

        I wanted to check this out but currently I get a "502 Bad Gateway" for https://invidious.snopyta.org/ . Will check later again today.

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        • JOduMonT
          JOduMonT @girish last edited by JOduMonT

          @girish said in Invidious an alternative front-end to YouTube:

          I wanted to check this out but currently I get a "502 Bad Gateway" for https://invidious.snopyta.org/ . Will check later again today.

          actually try https://invidio.us
          it's the one I use since few month through Rambox without any issue

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          • girish
            girish Staff last edited by girish

            Ah thanks. From my quick reading, invidious is a frontend to youtube and it doesn't store videos itself. As opposed to peertube, which can also host videos. On a side note, Peertube recently added LDAP support, just waiting for their upstream release.

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            • girish
              girish Staff last edited by

              well, what do you know. it's already released - https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v2.2.0

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              • ericdrgn
                ericdrgn @girish last edited by

                @girish Just to make sure we are all on the same page that is the point of Invidious. I don't see it as something that competes with PeerTube in anyway but is still necessary. I think being able to provide a way for users to access YouTube content without using YouTube directly is important.

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                • girish
                  girish Staff last edited by

                  Looks like they have github repo now at https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

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                  • girish
                    girish Staff @ericdrgn last edited by

                    @ericdrgn do you know the status of the project? It seems they haven't made a release in 2 years now - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/releases

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                    • timconsidine
                      timconsidine @girish last edited by

                      @girish but it's working in stable fashion, lots of sites offering it as a service

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                      • girish
                        girish Staff @timconsidine last edited by

                        @timconsidine ah, I was going to say there are 1023 commits to master since the last release but now I saw this note - "Releases are deprecated, build directly from master" (https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/releases/tag/0.20.1)

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                          LoudLemur @girish last edited by

                          @girish

                          I hope Cloudron supports Invidious. The maintainer ceased developing it but it is still widely used by many people and also by some applications. (For example, https://teddit.net (an alternative front-end for Reddit) has options to open Youtube links in an invidio.us instance instead.)

                          People are still using Youtube (instead of LBRY/Odysee) and a lot of valuable content still remains on Youtube (people haven't started using the one-click import onto Odysee yet.)

                          Until YT disappears, we need some sort of digital "condom" for Youtube's Big Data, anti-social tracking and privacy destroying crapware. Invidio.us is a good choice.

                          https://yewtu.be
                          and
                          https://invidious.snopyta.org/

                          are both quite reliable instances which work well. We could do with more such instances, and I hope Cloudron helps make that happen.

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                          • jdaviescoates
                            jdaviescoates @LoudLemur last edited by

                            @loudlemur said in Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube:

                            The maintainer ceased developing it

                            I'd like this too, but that's a bit of a red flag.

                            Generally Cloudron only likes to include actively maintained apps, for good reason really.

                            I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                              jk @jdaviescoates last edited by

                              @jdaviescoates said in Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube:

                              @loudlemur said in Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube:

                              The maintainer ceased developing it

                              I'd like this too, but that's a bit of a red flag.

                              Generally Cloudron only likes to include actively maintained apps, for good reason really.

                              It might be that the original creator stopped developing it, but a quick look at the repository shows active development. So it seems that it is actively maintained.

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                              • jdaviescoates
                                jdaviescoates @jk last edited by

                                @jk said in Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube:

                                So it seems that it is actively maintained.

                                Good to hear.

                                I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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                                  LoudLemur @jk last edited by LoudLemur

                                  @jk Yes, thanks. And invidio.us is also becoming more widely used. It is one of several, independent projects which seek to protect the users from intrusive corporate surveillance, including:

                                  • nitter.net (for Twitter)
                                  • teddit.net (for Reddit)
                                  • bibliogram.art (for Instagram)

                                  There are some requests to support these projects in the App Wishlist. I am starting one now for Bibliogram. Already one there. Looks like Instagram are blocking all instances... 😞

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                                    LoudLemur last edited by LoudLemur

                                    Invidious keep a Docker image on the Free alternative to DockerHub, Quay:

                                    https://github.com/quay/quay
                                    https://docs.invidious.io/Installation/#automated-installation
                                    https://quay.io/repository/invidious/invidious

                                    Invidio.us is one of several different proxies supported by the brilliant Privacy Redirect browser extension. This tool automatically transforms links on webpages to proprietary sites like Reddit and Twitter and Youtube, to Free proxies like Teddit, Nitter and Invidious:

                                    https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

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                                      LoudLemur @girish last edited by

                                      @girish There is a Docker for Invidious here:

                                      https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#docker

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                                      • RazielKanos
                                        RazielKanos @LoudLemur last edited by

                                        I think - especially in the times of the GDPR - this is a very interesting thing to have. It allowed you to add YT links free from any trackers, but you still get a video player in the post. Works wonders on social Media, but also in Blog posts 😄

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