For those who don't know the show: It's important to understand that Byron is a very, very dedicated employee, who accepts any challenge, and takes great pride in his work. His colleagues sometimes don't remember him after working with him for years.

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[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, sorry! In the last 30 or so posts, I always included both. This time, for some reason, I thought no one would care. Thanks for your feedback, I'll make sure to include both in the future.

[–] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IMHO video links should always be YouTube first, then third party mirror second, in the body or comments. Here are the reasons:

YouTube is the primary source. Always prioritize the primary source when you're sourcing.
Think of the URL being shared as the primary key to a database record. Lemmy can use it to detect dupes. With YouTube URL there's like 3 forms, discounting timestamps. With piped links the possibility expanded to 3+(number of piped instances on the web). This massively increases the likelihood of accidental reposts.
Give people a choice of whether they want to watch on the original site, or on a piped instance of their own choosing. When you link to a piped instance link you rob people of that choice.
A piped instance can choke or go offline at any time. YouTube is close to 100% uptime.
Userscript wise, it's trivial to map YouTube URLs to a user's piped instance of choice, but it's so much more tedious to detect and map every single piped instance.