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you can keep your proprietary trash for yourself
The amount of FOSS snobbery in this community is hilarious. You typed that comment on a proprietary device with proprietary hardware, probably running proprietary software (unless you're on Linux, truly using ALL open source stuff, including RISC-V hardware, FOSS browser and network stack). But God forbid an app is just source available instead of truly FOSS. Gasp! The horror! You should complain about it using one of the completely closed-source Android/iPhone apps that you use every day.
LMAO
I run GNU/Linux on a Corebooted laptop. That's my main device and the one I normally use to access Lemmy.
And FYI, I don't run any proprietary app on my phone which runs a free software build of Android. Everything is installed from F-Droid.
It's true that it runs proprietary firmware, but there's currently no way around it. Unlike Grayjay, which is proprietary just because their greedy creators didn't want people forking their app.
Fortunately, Invidious, Piped, Libretube and Newpipe all exist and work flawlessly so there's no excuse to use proprietary trash like that.
Isn't the very point of this post that Invidious and Piped don't work flawlessly?
for OP. But there are multiple comments saying they are working normally.
I don't use Piped a lot, but I can verify that Invidious and Newpipe are working as normal.
I've been using FreeTube since Piped was very inconsistent for me, but I guess that's just the nature of these services. I'll have to check out Invidious again, last time I tried it was several years ago and I stopped using it after the main instance shut down. Is it still under active development? I remember its development status being unclear, partially because the language it uses is not super mainstream, but it's probably changed since then.