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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[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

I would say just post the YT link and let folks do what they want with it. When someone only posts a piped link I don’t bother clicking because they are very unreliable for me and I pay for YouTube so I like to just use it and not deal with the bs.

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[+] railsdev@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

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[–] rbn@feddit.ch 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

On Android you can assign alternative apps as a standard app for specific URLs. This works just fine without root etc. via the regular app settings. E.g. in my case YouTube links from everywhere (mail program, browser, lemmy, ...) open automatically in the privacy-friendly NewPipe app from F-Droid.

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[–] yote_zip@pawb.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Couldn't a client app manipulate the URL from the fetched post content before displaying, even on iOS?

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[+] railsdev@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

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[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

Unless Piped dies

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[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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[–] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Oh, I thought it's a single website. My bad

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[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years 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.

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[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

I can't imagine there'd be any damage to posting two or more links: the YT one, a piped one, an invidious one, etc... All sides of the conversation that matter are covered.

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[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

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[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What is it exactly?

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[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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[–] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

What does that have to do with the API though? You said that the API sucks I'm curious about that part. I understand thinking the public instances suck because they can never keep up and get overloaded but your original comment said that the API itself was bad somehow.

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[–] MikuNPC@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

By API I think he meant the default API endpoint, not the API specification

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