Author of Piped here.

I think it is quite unlikely for YouTube to implement a DRM for watching videos. In anyways, we will keep fighting collaboratively as long as we can.

The most likely way YouTube probably will affect us currently is if they decide to log in wall their platform like how Twitter did.

If the Peertube developers find a way to make a way to find the same content there through some metadata, we could support it easily, but currently, there isn’t anything.

You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format !community@instance.tld and it will try joining it :)

Yes, that’s somewhat the point. You can see it in action in this comment. Rather than replace, it allows people to see a Piped link too instead of YouTube one.

Here’s a really cool YouTube video: https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ (the bot will reply to this)

Currently, it scans all posts that are federated with my Lemmy instance (feddit.rocks), however, there are very few communities that it is scanning currently as there are very few users who have subscribed to communities on my instance.

If more people register on my Lemmy instance and subscribe to more communities, it will scan those communities as well.

I hope more users register on my instance so it can be listed on https://join-lemmy.org/instances too :) I currently lack the 5 active users requirement for that, unfortunately.

Alternatively, I could maybe add a way for people to get the bot to subscribe to a community, so people from other instances can add communities to be scanned. 🤔 You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format !community@instance.tld and it will try joining it :)

You can just change the hostname, for example, youtube.com to piped.video. Alternatively, you could just use something like Libredirect to automatically do it on your browser.

I don’t think the current Lemmy clients allow hiding bots, but if they really bother you/people that much, it should possible to add options to hide bots altogether.