[Bug] "This helps protect our community." · Issue #4734 · iv-org/invidious
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Update 21/09/2024: #4734 (comment) EDIT by @unixfox: The Invidious team is aware of this issue. It appears that it affects all the software using YouTube. Please refrain from commenting if you have...

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.

    • hostops@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      56·
      3 months 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.worksEnglish
        63·
        3 months 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.comEnglish
          11·
          3 months 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 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            13·
            3 months ago

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

            • noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
              6·
              3 months ago

              Gab and Truth.social are Mastodon instances, just defederated by everyone else in case of the former, and not federating and pretending they’re their own thing in case of the latter.

            • Cistello@reddthat.comEnglish
              4·
              3 months ago

              Poast is listed as one of the biggest instances You just don’t notice it on Mastadon since a lot of them are defederated

          • elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 months ago

            Well that’s not true. You’re very pro-genocide, as long as it’s against Palestinians. That’s pretty political.

    • ‮redirtSdeR@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 months ago

      I’d like to move to PeerTube, but I mostly just post stupid memes, and game clips on my YouTube. And as generic as that is I don’t really know what instance to go with. Most instances seem to either focus on tech, or education. And that’s good to have but I want a more general instance from a uploader pov.