Sorry for the terrible photo, I can only upload 1 so I had to mash all these screenshots together somehow.

If you’re not familiar with GrayJay, it’s a cross-platform video app. You can watch and search videos from YouTube (YMMV if you use a VPN), Odyssey, Bitchute, Nebula, Kick, Twitch, pretty much anything you can imagine, and aggregates all your subscriptions and searches into 1 cross-platform feed. And if it’s not on there you can create your own plugin. There’s a repository here.

PeerTube has been supported since day 1 but previously you could only view videos from the instance you added, so you had to add them all individually. It was updated recently and seems to not be tied to any instances at all. You can view comments but it doesn’t seem to support login right now so you won’t be able to “like” or leave comments. I’ve asked them to add this functionality.

For PeerTube you’ll probably have to go into the sources and enable it. You’ll probably also want to enable SepiaSearch at the bottom (this searches across instances, for those who have opted into search).

I don’t really know how to explain the monetization model. There’s a $10 lifetime license fee. They’re adamant that it’s not free (as in beer) but if you don’t pay for the license, nothing happens 🤷‍♂️ I paid for it because it’s awesome.

You can download from F-Droid (using FUTO repository) or direct from grayjay.app (the app updates itself).

There’s also a desktop version, and your license works for both. Although the desktop version is really nice, it’s not yet as polished as the mobile one. It also supports syncing your data over your local network.

Source code here

Enjoy!

  • fuzzywombat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    112·
    8 hours ago

    GrayJay is an app associated with Louis Rossmann and lot of people seems to like him and therefore has gotten lot of traction lately but there is something you should know. This app is not open source even though source may be available. The app is not licensed in any existing open source license such as GPL, BSD, or MIT, etc. The source license is basically does not allow freedom of redistribution of modified code so therefore it fails the minimal definition of open source. Louis Rossmann has gone on the record on video saying he will sue people if someone were to do something with code he does not approve of whatever that means. Number of people have tried to tell him not to call GrayJay an open source app but he simply ignored them. It’s pretty clear he is now just calling this app open source for marketing purposes which I think is misleading and deceptive.

    If you want to buy the app because you find it useful and you don’t care about open source, that’s perfectly fine. However if you believe that supporting an open source ecosystem is part of the reason for supporting GrayJay, then you should know what’s really happening here.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgOPEnglish
      71·
      4 hours ago

      The source license is basically does not allow freedom of redistribution of modified code so therefore it fails the minimal definition of open source

      That’s not correct, you should read it more closely.

      Louis Rossmann has gone on the record on video saying he will sue people if someone were to do something with code he does not approve of whatever that means.

      He was very explicit that he does not want people doing what they do specifically with NewPipe, which is to redistribute it with ads or malicious code. Which I think is very fair. He also doesn’t want companies like Google making billions of dollars on the backs of community projects.

      If you’re unsure you can contact them about acquiring a license.