So I created an open-source Lemmy bot to reply to posts/comments with YouTube links with converted Piped links to preserve your privacy.

Piped is an open-source alternative privacy-friendly frontend to YouTube. You can watch the same content from YouTube without connecting to Google’s servers.

You can find the source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot

You can find Piped’s source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

PS: I’m the author of Piped :P

  • kavinOPAEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Is Piped something that you have to self host

    No, you don’t have to self-host it. You have a large number of public instances hosted generously by people! You may want to however self-host it however if you don’t live close to an instance, or want to actually own your own data.

    Are there instances out there that this redirects to or a single server?

    You can switch instances directly from the preferences page. You don’t need to change your URL for switching instances.

    Is it a sort of P2P thing where different servers host different videos or parts of different videos?

    No, Piped has no P2P aspects at all. What you describe is technically infeasible/difficult since we don’t store videos at all, just proxying them.

    How will this be affected by Youtube cracking down on adblockers?

    Time will tell, so far we aren’t affected. But, we could be affected when it fully rolls out rather than as an A/B test.