This is a summary of the $LUNA situation for those are are crypto-deaf
@freeschool The invidious link you provided failed to provide the embed on my end
@kreyren
this is a test - to see if I or you can see it come up with just a url
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=xL_sMXfzzyA
@kreyren
It comes up my end...
How about yours?
@freeschool that works, but how do you mitigate the overloading of an instance? I took down snopyta multiple times through my posts which is why i tried to use redirect.invidious.io but that doesn't do embeds
@kreyren
Right now, the achievement of not funnelling people to Google's YouTube is the main win and priority.
Try this also:
YouTube URL Converter to Invidious (No Ads + No Tracking)
http://freeschool.0id.org/youtube-url-converter-no-ads-no-tracking-download-videos/
Massive win by me to pull out the monetary based wins for them.
The $ource of all evils and all that:)...
More reading:
Your point as a sub-consideration I think is a good point.
I usually leave for them to manage which I think they are doing quite well.
Or I do my own version and embarrass myself or embarrass others enough to realise they should have thought about it sooner!!!
http://freeschool.0id.org/youtube-url-converter-no-ads-no-tracking-download-videos/
Usually reasoning is what is the force here... If I have to do something or if I am stealing people's audience they usually suddenly 'have time' and find motivation to what I don't even get answered at all :) As long as it's done.... or else! :]
And people like me / you asking will help that :)
So if we use it enough / ask / show by demand it gets done.
Kudos to all.
I've included @invidious in this message for reference.
Do feel free to ask them also on Mastodon. Generally I see stuff happening after a while - don't ask me how :)
I just know once I've advertised it or even visualised it and people do it enough together, people see reasoning or get it in the end...
Link summary:
https://api.invidious.io/
http://redirect.invidious.io/
@invidious
@freeschool @invidious It's not achievement if it takes down the invidious instance and gives the user negative experience
I advice people to use libredirect instead https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
@freeschool @invidious It's not achievement if it causes me to significantly lose reach
Fix the redirecting service to do embeds and shorten the link and i can use it instead of it
@kreyren
"Jump lots of hoops for me, do a little dance....make it the same as YouTube and then *maybe* I'll /think/ about using it... or just srug at something else... but apart from that you know I'm really thinking about my audience, more than anything else it's for them you know.
Ironic... I'm sure you can justify it. (Please don't)
It's just a joke (I'm not sure where). Maybe it's hard to measure in your matrix or guesstimations, but do you measure the losses via each click and tracking.. so who is winning more per click via someone funnelling them there who is hoping people care *after* clicking or about reaching people by playing some losing metric of pushing people these googled links often behind many things... oh man still a long way to go... I sure hope you don't underestimate each click you send there and really if you're not measuring it properly and guessing, then consider quitting the gamble. It's not worth losing any more clicks to them.
Links with No Adverts + No Tracking from Google...
@kreyren Invidious links also does the auto-thumbnail reation for any link pasted in the box... so instead of pasting YouTube links please use the same video ID in the Invidious link.
The Invidious URL shows on Mastodon the same as it did with YouTube links :)
If I remember right you're not-so-hot for YouTube BUT WERE USING YT links (for like a lot of things) and at the time it was because of the embedded auto-thumbnails picture mostly... or some other excuse ;)
(was the wrong priority for me)
But now Invidious does it will you ignore this poke and just consider making ALL YouTube links as Invidious instead? Thanks and example (same video ID below)
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=noQsHiTJAXo