So I created an open-source Lemmy bot to reply to posts/comments with YouTube links with converted Piped links to preserve your privacy.
Piped is an open-source alternative privacy-friendly frontend to YouTube. You can watch the same content from YouTube without connecting to Google’s servers.
You can find the source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot
You can find Piped’s source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
PS: I’m the author of Piped :P
Questions:
Is Piped something that you have to self host
Are there instances out there that this redirects to or a single server?
Is it a sort of P2P thing where different servers host different videos or parts of different videos?
How will this be affected by Youtube cracking down on adblockers?
No, you don’t have to self-host it. You have a large number of public instances hosted generously by people! You may want to however self-host it however if you don’t live close to an instance, or want to actually own your own data.
You can switch instances directly from the preferences page. You don’t need to change your URL for switching instances.
No, Piped has no P2P aspects at all. What you describe is technically infeasible/difficult since we don’t store videos at all, just proxying them.
Time will tell, so far we aren’t affected. But, we could be affected when it fully rolls out rather than as an A/B test.
Thanks for the reply. I’ll definitely have to check it out.