• Yote.zip@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    What is the etiquette for posting YT links in this scenario? If the content is from YT I’d prefer to post the canonical link instead of a mirror that may go down or may get hugged to death. If you’d rather view on a mirror I’d suggest you use e.g. LibRedirect. Does this make sense? Are there better ideas? I’d like to promote non-YT frontends but am not sure what the best option here would be.

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      1 year ago

      Piped is not a mirror, it’s just like a backdoor access to the original YouTube video.

      So if you can access it on YT, you can access it on Piped

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          1 year ago

          Piped can’t die. It’s just software. Maybe one instance can “die” and go offline for some reason but there are thousands more.

          Same for Invidious.

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              1 year ago

              The bot OP is talking about links to a single website. But the code running the site is used to run many sites like it. Similar to how Lemmy works.

              That’s my understanding, anyway. I haven’t looked too much into it, so I could be wrong.