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.

  • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
    76·
    1 year ago

    Louis Rossman said in his video that this was so people didn’t repackage the application with ads and malware. He said it’s fair game to recompile and altar it in any other capacity though.

    • Nia [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      122·
      1 year ago

      I’ve never heard of him before Grayjay suddenly started trending on here, so I’ll only trust them after this has existed for a little while due to them being able to change the license terms so freely (not that they will or not)

      Without a fully open license I just don’t trust someone who comes in suddenly doing it differently than everyone else. Assuming they end up being trustworthy this will be a great thing though.

      • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
        61·
        1 year ago

        Louis Rossman is the poster child for the right to repair movement. He’s been doing this for well over a decade at this point. It’s okay that you don’t know him, but just trust us when we say that he’s pretty trustworthy. Maybe I don’t know, do some research into him.

        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rossmann

        • Nia [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          8·
          1 year ago

          I’ll still wait to see, repairing devices and advocating for the right to repair is not the same thing as developing a video app and open source licensing

          I wouldn’t assume by default that a person who knows how to build and repair a rocket also knows how to reach the moon in one.

          I don’t expect others to be skeptical just because I think it is, but I just prefer to wait and see on these things regardless of who’s in charge of it, I’ve been burned by things that were supposed to be trustworthy before.

          • ToxicWaste@lemm.eeOP
            7·
            1 year ago

            Afterall a healthy mentality. Even if I think Rossmann does some great things - he is still a rando on the internet.

            Me as a dev understands the desire to protect your work against malicious actors. On the other hand some of the best work is GPL licensed. IMO their license provides an ok middle ground between protection and non-commercial redistribution.

            Let actions speak louder than words.

        • Aatube@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          Ah, so that’s why everyone was so hyped when he developed a €169 software to calibrate the MacBook orientation sensor