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Wow, there's so many new things to play with! Never heard of PeerTube before, but excited about the idea of a federated YouTube challenger!
And it looks like there's no shorts on PT? Awesome!
Google might start messing up the alternate frontend Invidious too (the exception
The video returned by YouTube isn't the requested one. (WEB client) (VideoNotAvailableException)
started appearing, which is still fixable though), which is a nice option to view yt without the clutter, especially when not logged in.In case you know the media player
mpv
, you can pass yt links directly into it and view just the video through it. You need to haveyt-dlp
installed for this. Then you can type$ mpv 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=....'
This is more for Linux though, idk how it is for Windows
YT has been playing games with 3rd party viewers forever. the number of times 3rd party viewers have had to rush out new builds to circumvent the latest YT breakage is disheartening.
At some point google will permanently wall off its garden to trap its users. what then, my friend?
Then one must either resort to the official youtube frontend (which is still bearable as long as content blockers work normally, I could not imagine getting spammed with ads) or using other ways of watching like PeerTube. Circumvention should always be possible in a way though as long as Google doesn't employ DRM on YouTube videos.
but, in a better world, circumvention should never be needed. with peertube, lemmy, mastodon, et al. there is no concept of circumvention - there is nothing to circumvent. thats the end goal here, at least for me (and I hope for others as well)
Yeah, and in the Open Source nature of the fediverse applications alternate frontends will also be able to thrive. (though the main fediverse app frontends come less cluttered / cleaner out of the box)
you got it, my friend! you got it!