I just want to say a HUGE thanks for volunteering your resources. I’ve got an account on another instance that’s on a “high quality” VPS, and it’s gone down a few times, whereas I haven’t experienced any downtime over here :) (nothing with the other instance either, it’s an amazing, well-run instance too and I’ve created a lot of my favourite communities on it).

So thank you!

Completely tangential, but Invidious is a great, self-hosted alternative front-end to YouTube. So for example, instead of the YouTube link:

• https://youtube.com/watch?v=HhNLkKw7ClM&feature=youtu.be

Just copy the “watch?v=…” to an Invidious instance. Two of my favourite public instances as examples:

• https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=HhNLkKw7ClM&feature=youtu.be
• https://yewtu.be/watch?v=HhNLkKw7ClM&feature=youtu.be

This lets you watch/share YouTube videos with zero ads, zero tracking and fast speeds :) The only drawback is you can’t comment/like, but it’s a fairly small one IMHO. Have a good one!