I watch YouTube when I eat etc. I pretty much solely watch gameplays. Is there any alternative? Or an opensource way to view YouTube? I don’t want to use Twitch because Amazon and I grew out of enjoying streamers in my late teens and it’s been a while since.
Edit: I don’t ever use it on mobile. Desktop via Firefox only.
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Since we’re on Lemmy, which uses ActivityPub, I’d first recommend using PeerTube since it’s also a fediverse ActivityPub platform. But it’s pretty small right now.
Alternatively, Odysee has an established creator base and it’s easy for YouTubers to sync video uploads, so it has a real chance at becoming mainstream if we can push adoption outside of the tech-sphere.
In terms of just YouTube privacy-respecting frontends, with your browser I recommend using Piped or Invidious.
For more instances for privacy-respecting front-ends, this link is a good resource. Furthermore, you could consider installing the LibRedirect extension to automatically redirect you to privacy-respecting frontends.
On Android, I strongly recommend downloading LibreTube or NewPipe from the F-Droid store. LibreTube is actually really pretty, so I prefer it to ReVanced on that basis as it doesn’t require any level of login to manage a subscription list I think. Newpipe is already very well established and I use it personally, very good app.
Happy to answer any questions, but I’m not an engineer, I’m just a guy :p
Peertube is simply not good however. I encourage people to try it but it’s just not even remotely close to YouTube content.
For now I think Newpipe is a much, much better choice.
I agree that it’s not fully “there” yet, but it won’t get “there” without users engaging with the videos. I try to use PeerTube for any YouTube creator I enjoy that uploads there. For example, Linux Experiment uploads there so I tune in weekly to see his news updates.
Let’s still support upcoming platforms where we can :)
These are all great suggestions and I just want to throw one more out there. There is also FreeTube which is a private YouTube front-end desktop client which is pretty good.
I’ll occasionally run into an issue where it won’t remember my place in a longer video if I leave and come back, so your experience may vary depending on the type of content you consume. But otherwise it’s great.
NewPipe. Newpipe is feature rich and does not require an account. It holds all subscriptiouns localy and does not use the API. Customizable and had tons of features.
Libretube is better as for me
Also a grat option! To each his own.
For desktop: Piped or Invidious instances, like piped.kavin.rocks
If you want to completely get rid of YouTube, then PeerTube or Odysee is nice.
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for android, i recommend newpipe and libreture. in my experience, newpipe is more stable but you can give those two a try and see what you prefer.
Newpipe is an open source youtube client, unfortunatly it’s missing any features that require an account.
If you want those features check out Revanced, a patched youtube app. Unfortunetly since Revanced uses the stock youtube app its not fully open source.
If you decide to use revanced be careful as there are a lot of fake websites. The real one is revanced.app or the github. You also need to patch the app yourself.
I confirm this is the greatest front end out there (excluding YouTube front end)
I’m Elon Musk
Take a look at Odysee. I even have a browser extention that redirects me from youtube to the video on Odysee if it is avilable their.
Looks very clean. But the issue to me and with a lot of new social media sites is the lack of population and thus the lack of content. I’ll try to stick to Lemmy and give it a chance but yeah it is a huge barrier of entry for new competitors.
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I have the same issue. That is why i still use youtube for example but the extention allows me to slowly migrate to odysee. If the creator also uploads their videos to Odysee without me knowing the extention will make me aware of it by redirecting me to the Odysee variant of the video instead of youtube.
What’s the extension?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-odysee/
It is called “Watch on odysee”
I’m not the person you asked, but I did find this firefox add-on. I just installed it, but haven’t really used it yet.
I just checked out Odysee and it’s pretty awesome. What’s their story? Is it like a mirror of YouTube or a new video platform?
It is a totaly different platform.
Ok. Thank you. After further reading I see it was a lbry platform.
Edit: I don’t ever use it on mobile. Desktop via Firefox only.
An Invidious instance or mpv (with
yt-fzffor example).Personally, I use
yt-fzffor searching (no thumbnails though) andnewsboat(a cli rss reader) for subscribing to YouTube channels then I can load up videos from there to mpv. I just press the “o” key on my keyboard when a new video comes out and it plays on mpv.Revanced on android has been good for me lately
Also this. Apparently revanced also works on the reddit app.
Because YouTube videos keep getting deleted I download all my favorites and host on my Jellyfin server.
Same! So much better this way. I wrote my own program so it just automatically downloads new videos from channels I’ve told it I’m interested in, and then it puts it in the appropriate Jellyfin folder. Way more reliable this way, I don’t miss videos. And I don’t care if my internet shits the bed, it can take however long it wants to take to download and once it’s there I can even watch it even with no internet. I even implemented sponsorblock in it so Jellyfin automatically skips sponsored segments.
If you’re on iOS, there is uYou++. It’s a YouTube client, but you could find the experience better. You can use AltStore or similar to side load it
I’m using libredirect right now, it redirects Youtube and all kinds of other links to open source frontends. I wish there was a video hosting platform with a lot of creators, but I think the only real one is Curiosity Stream.
in what way is watching YouTube on an open source web browser not open enough?
Rumble is a major one, but they’re more well-known for housing creators that have been banned from mainstream platforms, like Andrew Tate, Sneako, Donald Trump, etc.
On desktop, first try VLC Media Player. It’s very good for streams and videos on both YouTube and Twitch. Failing that, mpv is also very good.
If you’d just prefer a website, have a look at Piped. Invidious and CloudTube are also good, but they can be a bit hit-and-miss with which videos they can play, in my experience; and Invidious is also currently being attacked by Google’s lawyers.
