Invidious - Can't Subscribe (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by corroded@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I just set up a local instance of Invidious. I created an account, exported my YouTube subscriptions, and imported them into Invidious. The first time I tried, it imported 5 subscriptions out of 50 or so. The second time I tried, it imported 9.

Thinking there might be a problem with the import function, I decided to manually add each subscription. Every time I click "Subscribe," the button will switch to "Unsubscribe," then immediately switch back to "Subscribe." If I look at my subscriptions, it was never added.

My first thought was a problem with the PostgreSQL database, but that wouldn't explain why some subscriptions work when I import them.

I tried rebooting the container, and it made no difference. I'm running Invidious in a Ubuntu 22.04 LXC container in Proxmox. I installed it manually (not with Docker). It has 100GB of HDD space, 4 CPU cores, and 8GB of memory.

What the hell is going on?

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[-] PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

What's invidious?

[-] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

open source youtube website

[-] PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

What about using NewPipe instead?

[-] corroded@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I have ReVanced on my phone, STN on my TVs, and uBlock+SponsorBlock on my PCs. I was looking for an alternative that I could run on a server and would replace the various different apps I'm using. TubeArchivist ended up working perfectly for me; your mileage may vary.

[-] halm@leminal.space 1 points 8 months ago

Newpipe is a smartphone app, Invidious is a web frontend. I use the former but comparing the two are like apples and oranges. Clearly OP had their mind set on a web install.

[-] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 1 points 8 months ago

NewPipe is an android app, invidious is a selfhosted service accessed through a website.
They are quite different to blindly suggested the other.

I use invidous to embed videos in my rss feeder.
Also the requests to YouTube are made from the server instead of the device.

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