It should be back now! I’ve migrated it to a new server earlier today since the old one had some issues.

https://www.smry.ai/proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scientificamerican.com%2Farticle%2Fev-batteries-are-dangerous-to-repair-heres-why-mechanics-are-doing-so-anyway

(no paywall)

Zorin OS, which was the second distro I ever tried, I hated how outdated their repos were since they were using an older Ubuntu LTS repository for packages. It was quite painful to install software that would otherwise have worked out-of-the-box on Ubuntu. I hope this is no longer the case today.

I try doing something productive, like working on developing a new skill, or work on some of my hobby projects. That prevents me from feeling lonely.

Here’s some that I thought about:

• Wikipub
• Wikihive (A bee mascot)
• Academoo (A cow mascot)
• LinkLynx (A lynx with a magnifying glass maybe?)
• Encyclonet

Should be fixed, I pushed a fix yesterday! :)

Author of Piped here.

I think it is quite unlikely for YouTube to implement a DRM for watching videos. In anyways, we will keep fighting collaboratively as long as we can.

The most likely way YouTube probably will affect us currently is if they decide to log in wall their platform like how Twitter did.

Would you like to add feddit.rocks? It’s a lemmy instance run by me :)

Oh, I see! I overlooked that you needed an account on the instance to be able to resolve remote communities.

Connect is a closed-source application and is hence not on F-Droid. If you wanted to download apps from the play store, you can use Aurora Store btw!

Peertube is based on the Activitypub protocol and can federate with other instances just like Lemmy/Mastodon. Odysee is a decentralized blockchain-based video-sharing platform.

If you’d like to monetize your content, Odysee would be the better option due to its own cryptocurrency for tipping. I personally like Peertube more, as I think it is better moderated against right-wing content.

Peertube and Odysee.

If the Peertube developers find a way to make a way to find the same content there through some metadata, we could support it easily, but currently, there isn’t anything.

You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format !community@instance.tld and it will try joining it :)

Yes, that’s somewhat the point. You can see it in action in this comment. Rather than replace, it allows people to see a Piped link too instead of YouTube one.

Here’s a really cool YouTube video: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ (the bot will reply to this)

Currently, it scans all posts that are federated with my Lemmy instance (feddit.rocks), however, there are very few communities that it is scanning currently as there are very few users who have subscribed to communities on my instance.

If more people register on my Lemmy instance and subscribe to more communities, it will scan those communities as well.

I hope more users register on my instance so it can be listed on https://join-lemmy.org/instances too :) I currently lack the 5 active users requirement for that, unfortunately.

Alternatively, I could maybe add a way for people to get the bot to subscribe to a community, so people from other instances can add communities to be scanned. 🤔 You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format !community@instance.tld and it will try joining it :)

EndeavourOS, it’s based on Arch Linux.

Alpine Linux on most of my servers, if want something else for some reason Ubuntu.

You have a similar project for Android called Libretube :) Here’s a list of projects that use Piped’s API: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped#made-with-piped

Unfortunately, yes since for views to be counted, we have to make some tracking requests to YouTube.

Piped uses the Odysee sync API to find YouTube content already available there, and if so stream it from there. This is also written in the readme on the GitHub :)