What does that have to do with the API though? You said that the API sucks I’m curious about that part. I understand thinking the public instances suck because they can never keep up and get overloaded but your original comment said that the API itself was bad somehow.
That’s not true and I don’t know where this comes from. Ask anyone who actually is successful on YouTube and they will tell you YouTube ads pay quite well and their revenue share is very favorable.
Needed one the other day because the post only had the Piped one and Piped never loads for me. When it briefly used to load then it would buffer constantly.
What is the etiquette for posting YT links in this scenario? If the content is from YT I’d prefer to post the canonical link instead of a mirror that may go down or may get hugged to death. If you’d rather view on a mirror I’d suggest you use e.g. LibRedirect. Does this make sense? Are there better ideas? I’d like to promote non-YT frontends but am not sure what the best option here would be.
It would be nice if client apps allowed URL rewriting. I’m on iOS and I doubt Apple will make system-wide URL rewriting possible (ignoring jailbreaking).
On Android you can assign alternative apps as a standard app for specific URLs. This works just fine without root etc. via the regular app settings. E.g. in my case YouTube links from everywhere (mail program, browser, lemmy, …) open automatically in the privacy-friendly NewPipe app from F-Droid.
Typically, you can find the setting by holding down on the app’s icon, tapping the icon that looks like an “i” inside an “o”, and tapping on “Open by default”. After that, make sure “Open supported links” is on, and then tap “+ Add link” to add more supported links. That’s how it is on my phone, anyway.
Like you said, if you (or Google) have already set a default (for example, YouTube links always opening in the YouTube app), you have to go in to your YouTube app settings (same way as described above) and switch off “Open supported links”. Then you can go into the other app’s settings (Newpipe, ReVanced, etc.) and make it the default.
Thanks man unfortunately I have a Xiaomi phone so probably I don’t have the default options for video streaming links since miui and android are similar I have found the app settings and the defaults but I don’t have anything such as default video player (for links ) thanks anyway 👍🏻
For miui it’s apps / manage apps / 3 dots top right corner / opening links. go to YouTube and find the links it opens, now add those links to your app of choice and uninstall / disable the official app.
I would say just post the YT link and let folks do what they want with it. When someone only posts a piped link I don’t bother clicking because they are very unreliable for me and I pay for YouTube so I like to just use it and not deal with the bs.
I can’t imagine there’d be any damage to posting two or more links: the YT one, a piped one, an invidious one, etc… All sides of the conversation that matter are covered.
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