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Re: Stepping away from open source

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Post by gavinray » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 5:40 PM UTC

alexellisuk wrote: post #18

"Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube" - TIL. Running an open source project can be exhausting, and a thankless task, almost all of the time. An active community and user-base helps, but it seems like omarroth has come to the end of the road. As the maintainer of a relatively large OSS platform (OpenFaaS), I also wrote up about this last year too. For anyone who can't relate to omarroth's statement, it mi…

You are an absolute machine of a human and a wonder to behold. Keep being awesome.

Re: Stepping away from open source

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Post by hinkley » Sun, Aug 02, 2020, 9:41 PM UTC

notdiaphone wrote: post #22

What struck me is this: > I can't help shake the feeling that somewhere, the software I use is being developed solely by volunteers who would rather quit, but don't have the ability to say "no". I've witnessed a number of developers similarly burn out in the last years. This suggest either the opensource movement attracts people prone to such burn-outs or that it produces them. The general reaction tends to be a bit…

This is a risk of volunteerism in general. I think this is why you often see age gaps in organizations. You have a lot of young people who can’t pace themselves, and 3/4 of those who decide to stick around are gone in 2 years. I suspect that it’s a small but not insignificant contribution to young people moving somewhere else and starting over. I just need a change of pace...

Someone just a couple years ago wrote up an opinion piece in which they asserted that the standard oath for volunteers should be “I promise not to burn out”.

Re: Stepping away from open source

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Post by cerberusss » Mon, Aug 03, 2020, 7:19 AM UTC

dgellow wrote: post #20

gavinray wrote: post #12

For anyone unfamiliar, Invidious is just Youtube without ads and it lets you turn the screen off on mobile. It also lets you turn videos to an "audio only" mode for speed/bandwidth. It's a viable alternative to Spotify IMO as one use. It's basically free Youtube Red. Really sad to hear this, hope the creator is better off for it though.

Sounds like a neat way to use Youtube without being tracked by Google analytics. I guess that's the next project I will try to run on my Raspberry Pi :)

YouTube tracks you regardless, if I understand correctly. For instance, if you search on DuckDuckGo and there's a YouTube video in the results, you can play it right there. However, DuckDuckGo warns you that you'll be tracked.

Re: Stepping away from open source

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Post by DragoCubed » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 8:37 AM UTC

dgellow wrote: post #20

gavinray wrote: post #12

For anyone unfamiliar, Invidious is just Youtube without ads and it lets you turn the screen off on mobile. It also lets you turn videos to an "audio only" mode for speed/bandwidth. It's a viable alternative to Spotify IMO as one use. It's basically free Youtube Red. Really sad to hear this, hope the creator is better off for it though.

Sounds like a neat way to use Youtube without being tracked by Google analytics. I guess that's the next project I will try to run on my Raspberry Pi :)

I love that Invidious doesn't have an algorithm that changes your recommendations based on what you've watched. It's so freeing.