Uh sorry, is there a good way to tell RAM usage on a different phone with more RAM? I didn't find any usage number in the settings. It's a ~50MB app. So at leat they didn't include as much bloat as other apps do... You can try it. It allows you do watch videos right away, without signing up.

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[–] tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip [S] 2 points 5 months ago

Sadly I think not , Android is quite an awful OS almost in every regard to performance I think the only way to see RAM Usage is threw the Developer tools and logging

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[–] RmDebArc_5@piefed.zip 8 points 5 months ago

The Official App requires about 170MB RAM while watching a Video. Not sure about CPU usage but it seems light enough. NewPipe, the YouTube client, also allows you to browse PeerTube and is very light in my experience (RAM usage is about the same though)

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[–] Tealk@rollenspiel.forum -1 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I don't understand the question; the Fediverse has nothing to do with apps. Apps are just frontends that access services. But you asked for a YouTube alternative, and for that, your phone's hardware is completely irrelevant.

Or are you planning on installing a PeerTube instance on your phone?

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[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 10 points 5 months ago

I think they want to know if there is a PeerTube client (ideally an "official" one) that runs on such a weak phone.

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[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago

They might be talking about the Peertube app.

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[–] tobebannedbygaymods@lemmy.zip [S] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

yes I understand , I asked about the app after I asked about the replacement basically I want the that front end to access a YT replacement no , I'm not planning to run a PeerTube instance on my phone

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[–] toothpaste_sandwich@thebrainbin.org 5 points 5 months ago

Check out NewPipe. or PipePipe for automatic ad skipping. Does YouTube and PeerTube. "Share" video links from a PeerTube site with it to open it in the app.

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[–] Auster@thebrainbin.org 5 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Video softwares are a tad scarce, the main ones being Peertube (based on Youtube) and Loops (based on TikTok).

Peertube channels appear as communities on Lemmy from my experience. Loops I don't think I've seen being federated to Lemmy before, so I imagine posts from instances using it get treated as pure microblogging, meaning barely anything gets fetched by Lemmy.

Also tangential idea so hidden as spoiler, but...

If a video platform has RSS feeds for their creators/channels, you could generate bots that send links to updates (new videos) as fediverse posts. Might be a good idea if you can't find who to follow within the network here.

I have yet to explore options on the "threadiverse" (Reddit & billboard-inspired forums), but on platforms such as Mastodon & Misskey (microblogging) and Friendica & Mbin (threadiverse / microblogging hybrids), you can generate new bots with @birb@rss-parrot.net.

And lastly on this point of RSS, aside from Youtube (for obvious reasons) and Peertube (since you can follow natively), sadly not many have RSS feeds natively, the major ones I know being Odysee, NicoNico and Newgrounds. Others you may be able to generate RSS bridges, but they could not work (those aren't official means after all), and RSS bots might not take these links (e.g. RSS Parrot avoiding certain types of links to avoid spam).

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