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

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[–] MadgePickles@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do the content creators miss out on views bc of this?

[–] kavin@feddit.rocks 9 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, yes since for views to be counted, we have to make some tracking requests to YouTube.

[–] AccidentalLemming@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Good question, but I think it would be the least of a creator's worries. Creators get paid for ad views, not for video views. Since Piped doesn't show ads and doesn't help YouTube's recommendation algorithm figure out who else would like the video, it will be harder for the creator to pay their bills (they can't all be MBKHD) and find an audience.

To be fair, YouTube ad loads have gotten obnoxious, and I understand why people are wary of Google. I'm just glad I don't depend on unpredictable YouTube income.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you ever feel inclined and if it is possible, maybe add a search of odysee to see if the content creator posts there. A lot of what I watch is posted on odysee too.

[–] kavin@feddit.rocks 6 points 1 year ago

Piped uses the Odysee sync API to find YouTube content already available there, and if so stream it from there. This is also written in the readme on the GitHub :)

[–] MadgePickles@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago

What does it mean to sync with your YouTube channel?