Grayjay - Follow Creators, Not Platforms
grayjay.app
Grayjay is a unique media application that revolutionizes the relationship between content creators and their audience. Our app democratizes the content delivery process, shifting the focus from platforms to creators themselves.

Quick shout-out to Grayjay: An app to watch videos on any platform - reducing the power of individual services. The Software is open-source and can be found here: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

I will test this out for myself and hope someone here finds this useful.

  • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    324·
    1 year ago

    Exactly. Beware of the inevitable enshittification down the line. Once they have the market share, they have no reason not to close their source

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
      1518·
      1 year ago

      I trust Louis Rossman not to do that. He explained the only reason for the current license is to prevent people forking the app and putting it on the Play store with ads

      • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
        252·
        1 year ago

        I trust no one. Just put the code in a permissive license so when you eventually cease developing the app or when you turn into adding anti-features there are community forks.

        • loutr
          1·
          1 year ago

          To my understanding, you can fork, modify and distribute it as long as it is “not intended for or directed towards commercial advantage or monetary compensation.”

          Seems fair to me.

        • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          712·
          1 year ago

          He explained his reasoning in the video. He said a malicious copy of newpipe got forked and uploaded to the play store and he would like to prevent that from happening.

          • sir_reginald@lemmy.world
            214·
            1 year ago

            that’s no excuse at all. This way they are restricting everyone’s freedom.

            Free software, or if you prefer, open source, is based on the principle that everyone can use the code for any purpose (some licenses have copyleft but that just requires you to share your modifications to the code).

            A malicious actor will simply grab this app code anyway, don’t giving a crap about the license and put ads on top. If they are a malicious actor after all, I highly doubt the license will stop them.

            What the license is stopping are legitimate community forks. There’s a fork of Newpipe that adds Sponsorblock support, for example, which comes super handy. If community forks weren’t allowed, it wouldn’t be possible at all.

            • dnu@lemmy.sdf.org
              108·
              1 year ago

              Having a license allows them to go after the malicious actor with legal backing.

      • Espi@lemmy.world
        91·
        1 year ago

        They should allow that. With gpl, the name is protected and that’s all that matters.