cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22423685

EDIT: For those who are too lazy to click the link, this is what it says

Hello,

Sad news for everyone. YouTube/Google has patched the latest workaround that we had in order to restore the video playback functionality.

Right now we have no other solutions/fixes. You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won’t work anymore.

If you are interested to install Invidious at home, we remind you that we have a guide for that here: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/..

This is not the death of this project. We will still try to find new solutions, but this might take time, months probably.

I have updated the public instance list in order to reflect on the working public instances: https://instances.invidious.io. Please don’t abuse them since the number is really low.

Feel free to discuss this politely on Matrix or IRC.

    • @scarabic@lemmy.world
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      Paying Nebula subscriber here 🙋‍♂️

      Pony up or your call for a competitor doesn’t mean anything. People don’t want ads? Fine. There has to be another revenue stream. Server capacity costs money, making a website and app cost money, and video creators need to eat.

      • Bilb!
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        31 hour ago

        Then isn’t the obvious move to just pay for youtube?

      • @hostops@sh.itjust.works
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        4318 hours ago

        Competitor with no content, users is not a competitor. Youtube should be forced to share content they do not own. Just for the sake of competition.

        • @Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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          4114 hours ago

          The content isn’t the problem. It’s the delivery system. No one else has the storage and network capacity that Youtube has. And as a result of that, no one else has the built-in audience Youtube has. Putting your videos on YT is simply the best way to get views.

          • @Cistello@reddthat.com
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            510 hours ago

            Pretty much every Alternative Tech platform also has a huge far right population Lemmy is an exception to this but has a decently sized far left population instead I dunno how it is now but a lot of people complained a couple of weeks ago about Nazis joining Bluesky and one of the guys from Bluesky covering them

            • Chloé 🥕
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              65 hours ago

              that’s true, but platforms like rumble were created to be homes to the far right. we shouldn’t encourage their existence.

      • Rob T Firefly
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        712 hours ago

        Does anyone really post anything to Dailymotion besides blatantly unauthorized TV stuff? I can’t imagine it’d be very good vibes for anyone trying to make an honest living with original content over there.

      • @Cistello@reddthat.com
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        110 hours ago

        I used it a bit because its also on Grayjay but its pretty terrible and focuses a lot on big media than individual people

      • Chloé 🥕
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        212 hours ago

        iirc they tried to become a tiktok clone, no idea how it went but considering i never see anyone talk about it i doubt it went very well