cross-posted from: https://feddit.rocks/post/3214
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
Thank you. people like u are the ones who r making this world bearable enough to live in.
Hope u’r wary of the legal repercussions from Alphabet’s side. this doesn’t seem like a child’s play :/
Testing the bot: https://youtu.be/Q8zDzZQCP38
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/Q8zDzZQCP38
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Very nice.
That rocks! Thank you @kavin@feddit.rocks !
I don’t really speak github - is there a manual way to go to a YT video, but through Piped? Or is the new url more complicated than that?
You can just change the hostname, for example,
youtube.comtopiped.video. Alternatively, you could just use something like Libredirect to automatically do it on your browser.
Maybe this makes me a dummy, but I don’t understand the point of the bot? Like is it supposed to replace links that people post here from YouTube, with Piped instead?
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)
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Good Bot.
Cool way to show to explain it by showing it in action thanks a pot, you MVP you.