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

  • @[email protected]OPEnglish
    8•1 year ago

    Piped can be more privacy friendly in a few cases, as you don’t need an account for subscriptions or playlists.

    Here are some differences to Invidious:

    • Subscriptions don’t necessarily require an account
    • Playlists don’t necessarily require an account
    • Piped supports Infinite scrolling
    • Piped supports Webm videos
    • Piped can stream videos from Odysee if the same video is available there.
    • Piped is a lot lighter on the server
    • Piped always proxies your traffic to Google’s servers (most Invidious servers don’t proxy videos to YouTube by default)
    • Piped has SponsorBlock integrated (DeArrow will be added soon)
    • Piped has ReturnYouTubeDislike support via RYD-Proxy
    • Piped can only be self-hosted on a server. Invidious on the other hand can work fine on local networks.
    • Piped is a lot easier to administer than Invidious as an instance operator.

    I’ll conclude by saying that I was once an Invidious user. I decided to write Piped at a time when Invidious was riddled with extremely odd bugs and performance issues. Some of these issues still persist to this day. I’ve always kept performance a top priority in Piped. I wanted to create a better alternative to YouTube than Invidious for my use case and threat model. I think I have succeeded in that :)