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APK for searching and subscribing to Youtube, Twitch, and more in a single feed (youtu.be)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I just downloaded and have been loving this. It loads pretty quickly, navigation is intuitive, and I'll finally stop forgetting that Nebula exists because it'll all be in my one big subscription feed.

Since I'm new to moving over to open source, I want to ask the veterans: is this as incredible as it seems right now, or is there something I'm missing?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

What happened to newpipe is the fault of Google's police's not allowing an official newpipe, not of Foss. The same issue can happen with this software just as well. There's plenty of Foss which doesn't have this issue, like Firefox

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ok but if Google is not willing to support this effort, like I asked what's your solution besides just letting it happen? Because that's not gonna spark confidence for mass adoption to move away from these bloated ad and tracker filled mainstream apps. You need to have steps for progress and this allows more control when those who are publishing said knock off applications in their store will not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

You're never going to completely stop all malicious forks. Perfect is the enemy of progress, as you say. Even with the license they have, there will be malicious forks and there will be windows of time where people will be taken advantage of.

Someone who advocated for the right to repair shouldn't be against the right to repair software just because it's not elegant or less friendly to everyone.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It doesn't matter whose fault it is.

If the same thing happens with this software, they will have it taken down. That's why the license exists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Nice edit.

The reason why this happens only to newpipe and not to other Foss software like Firefox is because Google prevents an official newpipe on the app store. The could do the same with this app and license or not they'd have the same problem

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

No, it doesn't?