the-scrabi

(One of the) NewPipe devs here: I've been dreaming of something like a Worldwide Video (WWV) for a while. Essentially, instead of having one huge platform you would have many smaller platforms. These would talk the same content language, like HTML/HTTP for the Web, so you could have Video browsers like PipePipe, NewPipe or others that could aggregate and display the content from these platforms. Peertube kind of goes into that direction, but the Peertube network just like other similar platforms/systems have many problems right now. These often suffer from lacking content moderation, a strong network effect towards bigger platforms and a well scalable content provisioning (CDN costs money and P2P is complicated) for example.

NewPipe dev here: We discussed something like this, but decided against “hot loadable code” like JavaScript snippets. Instead, we notify the users when a new version of the app is available. However, this features is opt-in due to privacy concerns. Maybe we should make it more obvious that this feature exists.

NewPipe dev here. Just like @nijave said, we offer OTA updates. Apps in android are capable of updating themselves this is why we show notifications when a new update is available. However, due to privacy concerns this automatic update checking is an opt-in feature, which you will have to enable in the settings first.

It's not even about power users. The article describes this pretty well: It is about the fact that this action will destroy or at least severely harm the open source app ecosystem. What I can see is that this already has a chilling effect on app developers releasing apps on F-Droid. You might say why should I care about that when I am one of the 99 % of normal users. But it all comes down to freedom. If you destroy alternatives to the Play Store, you remove the freedom of choice that even the 99 % of users would have if they were willing to switch to proper open source solutions.

Does anyone know if there is a concrete evidence that bespoke measure violates the EU's digital markets act?

Schabi here: The team wants to start the rewrite in 2024 after 0.26.0 got released. The reson for the rewrite: Codebase got hard to maintin so we need to refactor. Also android changed the UI style and the UI frameworks a lot. We want to stay up to date with that.

Google accepted a DMCA request for the homepage of the Android streaming app NewPipe. Its homepage newpipe.net has been removed from Google search results if one searches for "newpipe". NewPipe is an alternative privacy focused YouTube frontend, but also supports other services like PeerTube, SoundCloud and Bandcamp.