this is exactly my thought. these things are not essential for living. I will use them as long as they provide some fun. if they don't, too bad for them.

The problem is that the content creators that I like are all on YouTube and nowhere else. There is no alternative.

I've seen a few familiar faces on Thorium. Smart content creators will start putting their eggs in multiple baskets.

I'm pretty sure the "trusted web" that Google is implementing in Chrome is exactly for that purpose: distinguish apps doing HTML scraping from users using a regular browser.

If Google wants to break Newpipe, they'll find a way.

I'm going to seriously consider completely discontinuing watching YouTube if NewPipe stops working. I still like plenty of non-FLOSS oriented channels that will never even consider a FLOSS or open web solution, but I think I owe it to myself to not accept Google's bullshit, not even use it from the browser, with or without the adblock ban. Not to protest Google's actions because I don't care, but to uphold my own values and interests. I need to heed my own advice and extended rants about big tech.

Specially content creators. PeerTube could get a bit more people.

Youtube pays content creators.
PeerTube costs content creators money.

There's plenty of content creators aware of the issue, which is why nebula, floatplane etc. exist, but those are subscription models which most people don't want to pay.

Sure, youtubes money is not all that creators get, see for example LinusTechTips 2020 numbers. But gutting your revenue by ~25% would hurt hard.
Especially when costs go up at the same time.

The content creators kinda did already - that's what Nebula is - any place the famous names move to would be one that includes some sort of payment system either on the video site or on Patreon.

The vast majority of their userbase already puts up with it, so I doubt they will see any significant backlash. Even if all the FLOSS creators leave, they're still a tiny minority because it's """influencer""" channels like the Pauls and content farms like Bright Side that are the real cash cows on the platform.

Also, a huge part of their userbase is children. Probably more than any other mainstream social media platform. They won't even understand the concept of DRM or corporate bullshittery and will only use the YouTube app or browser anyway. Kids are also less likely to be bothered by ads, might not even understand what the purpose of an ad is, in fact they will just see them as more content which is why advertising to kids is so unreasonably effective.

The problem is that hosting videos at scale is hard and expensive.

We can migrate from Twitter to Mastodon or Reddit to Lemmy, but what PeerTube instance is going to be able to serve videos for content creators like LTT or MKBHD?

Probably not. There's no netflix-dl for a reason.

In anyways, we will keep fighting collaboratively as long as we can.

You're doing god's work!

I've never pegged Google as particularly giving a shit about legacy support though. They kill things out of the blue without warning or explanation.

IIRC lbry is bankrupt due to some bitcoin thing with the SEC, not sure how long they'll be around for

I don't think there are any that don't require jailbreak/sideloading, but you can always use the browser versions like Invidious or Piped!

I just "installed" the piped website, works fine.

I use uYou+ through AltStore