Submitted 1 year ago by kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world
In the lght of recent events (gloogel complaining about uBlock) I tried to investigate other available options out there. While Piped.video definitely works, it looks like it is only fluid for popular videos, and as soon as I want to watch something a little more obscure, it is basically impossible, I have infinite wheel spinning.
Have anyone here tried self hosting Piped/ Invidious, and could share a feedback about performance /usability ?
I selfhosted Invidious a while back, but gave up on it when it stopped working and I couldn’t figure out why. I have no experience with Piped.
I settled on a third alternative, but I don’t want to point too much attention to it because I think it might be flying under Youtubes’ radar at the moment. But let me say this: if you embed a youtube video on a third party site and have it be part of a playlist with only the video in it, you won’t see any ads. so for example I’d be embedding a link like this: www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ?playli… on my own page and can then watch it without ads :) if you have any questions, feel free to hit me up.
Sounds like a loophole that would be pretty easy to cover from YT? Why would they be so generous and not showing ads in playlists
Wierd lol
yeah I know, makes no sense. I’ll use this workaround for as long as possible, but I’m sure I’ll have to move to Piped or Invidious sooner or later.
Playlists usually don’t have eyes watching so businesses don’t want to pay for their ads on playlists.
I just set up Piped a few days ago, it was pretty simple to set up. The documentation in general is pretty shit, but there’s enough info on how to set up the docker-compose, the script it runs is pretty good.
I use it remotely at my farm over Starlink, pulling from the homelab that has a hardwired 150 down/15mbps upload speed, and it seems to work fine as a client. I put it behind a reverse proxy with basic auth to prevent randos from accessing it.
Thanks for detailed feedback! Same question as another comment below : how much ram u need? I am kinda constrained on that
The whole stack is using less than a gig right now.
I self host a personal Piped instance, and it works without issues for me. Setting it up was fairly easy too, I just had to customize and run the docker compose config they provide.
diminou@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
I’m selfhosting invidious for a few users (5), only downside is it have to be restarted every once in a while to clean up the db (cron every one hour did the trick pretty well). Very usable on every video :-)
kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 1 year ago
you mean clean up the ram usage? not db
Ok nice to hear that, will give it a shot
diminou@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Yeah something like that sorry was just waking up 😂
From the doc : Because of various issues Invidious must be restarted often, at least once a day, ideally every hour.