As of late, invidious has become pretty much unusable for me. All the instances either don’t work or are very slow, and as nobody knows Crystal more and more bugs keep cropping up (e.g. right now search is broken on all instances).

Are there any alternatives? I know of FreeTube but its client is Electron which is a no-go for me. I also know of youtube-dl, but I’m more interested in a website I can use to watch YouTube while proxied.

    • Ephera
      9·
      4 years ago

      Yeah, reading through these comments, it really becomes apparent that the open-source community invests more time into fixing YouTube than into its own platforms.

      I get that a lot of content is on YouTube, and even with the most amazing PeerTube code/instance/tool, you’d still want that content accessible, but it’s also clear that this is not sustainable.

    • ssenecaOP
      9·
      4 years ago

      However, another thing I’ve been doing, which is the long-term solution, is watching more PeerTube.

      Yeah PeerTube is awesome. I really wish literally any of those I follow on YT moved there though. I was hoping the recent controversy over YT turning on ads on all videos would make some people switch, but nope…

    • DessalinesA
      5·
      4 years ago

      Same here, I love newpipe. It can even do background playing queues, making it great as a jukebox / music player. And it has good resume support, so if you can’t finish a video, it saves your progress.

      But yeah I wish more channels would start using either peertube or torrents directly.

      • bluerabbit
        5·
        4 years ago

        PeerTube is great but it’s hard to wade through sometimes. A suggestion for anyone who has some spare time: set up a community or two here on Lemmy for posting interesting new videos, peertube links only.