I watched the side boobvideo on invaneko, for science, to ensure no barriers to the video.
But I agree, they’re at best inconsistent.
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fizzle@quokk.au 1 day agoDo any of these instances ever work ?
I loved invidious for a long time but I just gave up about 6 months ago.
Even hosting your own instance it was almost always not working waiting for a new release or workaround to be pushed.
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 day ago
GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
inv.nadeko.net is the most reliable one, followed by yewtu.be. It gets broken every once in a while, but it always bounces back. I gotta admire that about the Invidious folks.
fizzle@quokk.au 17 hours ago
Its not the individual instances but the underlying project.
Its not even the maintainers fault. Its a cat and mouse game. The devs have done an epic job of keeping up, but ultimately all of these projects are unreliable.
yt-dlp is the gold standard and provides the back end for many of these projects, but its cli only.
Ive found freetube desktop app to be more reliable than invidious. Also pipepipe for Android.