I’m currently in the process of switching from YouTube to Piped and was getting fed up with rewriting YouTube links myself. I finally found an extension that can do this with a relatively easy setup:
Thought maybe more people might find this interesting. My setup is in the pic.
Edit: @nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de Just suggested using LibRedirect which is even better than Redirector. Also since Redirector isn’t really maintained anymore.
There is an extension called LibRedirect that does this. It’s customisable, as in, we can set if we want to redirect to piped or invidious, and which specific instances to use. Not only just YouTube but other services like GitHub to Gothub, Twitter to Nitter, reddit to libreddit etc. The default settings are already great.
Edit - added the link.
The problem with all those addons is that you’re limited; you can use only what they already set for you.
Redirector is more flexible.
It is, but it already has all the services that most would use with big QoL features compared to Redirector. Namely quickly adding and removing instances, and quickly enabling and disabling redireciton for specific services. And is a lot easier to use in general especially for people who don’t know regex.
Plus Libredirect has a few features that redirector doesn’t, the ability to redirect to multiple different instances, and the ability to redirect embedded content such as any embedded youtube videos on any other website.
But as you said, redirector is more flexible if you need it for something other than the ~20 services that LibRedirect handles.
Libredirect user here (casual).
All of this only makes sense if you’re redirecting to a frontend, right? Not an alternative platform? For instance, it would be nice to redirect all Goodreads links to Bookwyrm, but I’m not sure if this is possible. (Already got it set to redirect to Biblioreads, but just curious since Bookwyrm is what I actually use.)
Redirector does embedded content, too. And stylesheets, scripts and anything (if you select it).
That’s not even true. I use my custom instance for Piped and Libreddit in LibRedirect on all my devices.
Yooo I had not heard of gothub I’ve been looking for something like this. I’m assuming it is possible to clone repositories?
I’m just over here looking for goth-hub.
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Will have to settle for prawn hub
I love this. Now i want to spin up and instance and start themeing
That sounds great! I’ll check it out
It works with embedded content too. And if you’re on android, check out UntrackMe app on f-droid.