DeadNinja
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Cake day: Jun 20, 2023
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Had this question in my mind for a while now, after going through the recent Reddit API drama.
I am a big FOSS advocate, and have moved away from YouTube (but not the contents, lol) because of its invasive tracking practice.
I have been using NewPipe on my phone for a long time now, and I think it's an excellent piece of work.
I believe I also read somewhere that unlike other third party YouTube Apps, NewPipe doesn't use YouTube's API, but instead retrieves data by scraping the website via an Extractor.
Recently I came across LibreTube - which I believe has a slightly different approach. It points to a "Piped API" which acts as an "intermediary" between YouTube and LibreTube ( and I think I also heard that Piped API uses NewPipe Extractor underneath) - I am not hugely tech-savvy, so correct me if I sound weird.
All these said and done - in case YouTube decides to turn rogue one fine morning (like Reddit) - will any of these Apps be impacted?
(And while we are here, can anybody please ELI5 for me the differences between Invidious and Piped?)
Thanks in advance !
A lot of people have already left Reddit Fuggit and moved to Fedi as we have seen over the past couple of weeks.
And those who are still sitting there, they are either in a dilemma and unable to make up their minds, or they live under a seriously big rock and have no idea what’s going on with this API saga, and the Third Party Apps stopping to work on July 1 will be a nasty surprise for them.
In short, it’s unlikely that they will overcome the surprise/dilemma in just a day and jump over to Lemmy immediately.
The Fuggit --> Lemmy migration will continue as it is today, but I don’t think there will be a catastrophic spike on July 1.
You have absolutely no idea what a gem of a comment you wrote ! This clears up a lot of things for me. Thanks !
I also read that the original Invidious Dev (Omar Roth) has shut down his instance in 2020, and is also taking a break from active development. Other Invidious instances might still be around, but for now it’s not the most interesting thing to check out, at least for me.