• SeventySeven@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      13 hours ago

      I used catbox to post videos to my community and just now realized many people couldn’t even see the videos. Any good alternatives?

    • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      23 hours ago

      I keep hearing this but I have somehow never got a catbox.moe link that failed to load. Its usually pretty damn quick for me too

    • wjs018@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      1 day ago

      In my experience, this is often an ISP thing. As an example, my mobile carrier just blocks catbox completely. So, I won’t get images to load until I turn on the vpn.

  • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    53
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    2 days ago

    You should delete Windows from your computer and install Arch instead. Nothing can possibly go wrong. And if it does, it’s your fault for being a clueless noob.

  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    28
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    1 day ago

    Please just post simple YouTube links. It’s so much easier to just have them automatically open in LibreTube on my end than try to de-cruft the video link you were trying to share from whatever shoddy workaround you tried to implement.

    Essential tools for those who need them:

    • URLCheck for removing tracking and redirects from URLs and selecting the application to open them
    • LibreTube for watching YouTube videos
    • NetGuard for preventing applications and Android services from reaching external networks
    • Bjarne@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      10
      ·
      1 day ago

      And original links will probably be longer alive. (Even though you can deconstruct them)

    • Jännät@sopuli.xyz
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      edit-2
      1 day ago

      And for Firefox & Chromium there’s LibRedirect which works for a ton of different sites, including YouTube. You often do have to hop between instances to find one that works because they keep getting blocked (and some of the services they list don’t even have working privacy frontends anymore), but the extension makes it easy

    • wjs018@piefed.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 day ago

      I only recently learned that piefed actually has some decrufting built into the codebase directly. So, a user could make a post sharing a huge ugly youtube url, but it will be cleaned up when the post is made.

    • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 day ago

      FWIW, this is the consensus in every thread I’ve seen the issue raised. And it’s not just because it’s the “lazy” option that everyone’s used to.

      It also happens to be the most obvious solution to both (1) the more-technical user’s need for a canonical reference from which to redirect to their preferred frontend, and (2) the less-technical user’s need for a link that “just works” by default.

      The criticism that it allows more traffic to YouTube is valid, but forcing traffic to a particular frontend/instance seems to create new problems for basically everyone, including instance admins who often aren’t prepared for major traffic spikes.

  • MotoAsh@piefed.social
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    ·
    2 days ago

    Sure, a lot of people are nitpicks, but people really love to take offense at being corrected or clarified, even politely.