Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?

ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Man 90% of Invidious instances are dead/not working for me, and of the few that do, they get mad at me for using an agent switcher (which I turn off but still). Freetube is slightly better, but will also break every few days and either require VPN switching or waiting for a fix from the devs.

  Sidenote: LibRedirect users, are all LibReddit instances dead or is it just me?

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  • drasglaf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This one always works for me,awesome instance.

    Other alternatives are FreeTube, NewPipe or GrayJay. Personally I use FreeTube the most.

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    • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, nadeko is one of the few that works, but like I said, they get mad at me for using Chameleon.

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  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Man 90% of Invidious instances are dead/not working for me, and of the few that do, they get mad at me for using an agent switcher

    While true, Invidious instances were dropping like flies due to the amount of maintenance needed to keep it alive, Invidious admins shouldn’t be flagging you for using a user agent switcher.

    I’m not sure of your nationality however, if you’re looking for an invidious instance I host one for folks with Canadian IP’s - inv.halstead.host

    Freetube is slightly better, but will also break every few days and either require VPN switching or waiting for a fix from the devs.

    If I’m not mistaken Freetube can either use Invidious instances to proxy video playback or directly connect to YouTube servers,

    Also, I host a Redlib instance at lib.halstead.host (again geo-restricted to Canadian IP’s)

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    • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Libreddit died when Reddit made the APi change a couple years back, RedLib which is a fork is maintained

      Originally, I was confused why people were saying that Libreddit is dead, cause I thought I was using it up until about a month ago, but now I realize I was using RedLib. I’m not sure why, but recently LibRedirect defaulted to Libreddit instances and I was dumb and didn’t check which service I was using, so I thought all Reddit proxies were dead. Thank you for helping me to notice this difference! I can finally stop having to go to the actual Reddit page 🥹

      I also host a Redlib instance at lib.halstead.host again geo-restricted to Canadian IP’s.

      I can totally verify that it’s restricted to Canada, had to switch VPN location to access the site. I’ll keep geo-restricting in mind if a sever supposedly won’t let me connect.

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      • ohshit604@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Glad to hear I could help you out!

        I can totally verify that it’s restricted to Canada, had to switch VPN location to access the site. I’ll keep geo-restricting in mind if a sever supposedly won’t let me connect.

        I did a little tinkering with my server and it should be globally accessible now with Anubis as the captcha/bot check. Hope it makes accessing it easier.

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  • rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Invidious instance I use that has never caused me problems: invidious.f5.si/feed/popular

    as far as libreddit…yeah it can be hit or miss. safereddit.com is generally pretty decent and hasn’t gone down too much, only issue I have with that is videos are very slow to play if at all.

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  • finix_the_psyker@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve always found Freetube to be the best, most reliable alternative by far. It does break occasionally though which is disappointing, but I would assume that’s due to YouTube fighting hard to keep people on their own platform.

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