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Grayjay – Follow Creators Not Platforms

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Re: Grayjay – Follow Creators Not Platforms

#11

Been using it today, if they want mass adoption theyll need to gind a way to import subscriptions from youtube and find some slightly better way to recommend videos. They arent going for mass adoption right now so ill say that it works just as expected and is a very smooth experiance. Maybe a few ui tweeks(let me sub from search results please) and some fixes to the loading screens but i can see myself using this on…

You can click source -> YouTube -> Login followed by import subscriptions.

Re: Grayjay – Follow Creators Not Platforms

#12
post #8

I'm curious if this reports playback to YT properly. I'm playing for premium and I'd like that money to go to the correct channels. They do mention the paid/unpaid mix, but explicitly call out only Patreon. Same for Nebula (with subscription) and Twitch (time watched, ads "viewed"). Also, I find it a bit funny that with their goals and target initial audience, they have social presence on Twitter but not mastodon/blu…

By default sending tracking data to YouTube is disabled, but it can be enabled in the settings for the plugin (after you login). This way your money will go to the correct channels.

Re: Grayjay – Follow Creators Not Platforms

#13
I'm not super technical but if someone knows, I would love to know how does it pull the video from Youtube/Twitch in the first place? Like wouldn't Youtube try and block sending data to this application somehow? Wouldn't twitch? If not today then when it pops up on their radar, and has a meaningful dataplace.

Re: Grayjay – Follow Creators Not Platforms

#15
post #2

In case people are wondering which architecture their Android is (to avoid downloading the bulky universal APK), I found mine is aarch64 with `lscpu` on Termux. Not sure if there's a more straightforward & universal way of finding that out!

Even if you download the universal APK, the app will detect which architecture you have, and the next update it will install the architecture specific one, reducing the bundle size.

Re: Grayjay – Follow Creators Not Platforms

#18

Interesting project. Too bad it doesn't (yet?) support iOS.

I have some doubts whether this would be permitted on the App Store.

YouTube could argue that this is piracy and Apple might side with them.

Still, they could distribute the package (and let people side load it on jailbroken devices or through XCode if they are developers). Grayjay is not on the Play Store either, afterall. But the audience is probably too small to bother.

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