Louis Rossmann Grayjay: https://grayjay.app/
Talk about Grayjay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jyRhiP2Oso
Talk abut Harbor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLoCtRzTkJQ
Grayjay source code: https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
Don’t trust me when I say it’s not tracking you or advertising to you – VERIFY FOR YOURSELF!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-QtwGfILTo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tll_2etrDfM
00:00 – Introduction
00:08 – The monopoly/duopoly problem
00:47 – The centralized identity problem – sovereign identity is a MUST
01:10 – 3dprintgeneral deletion
01:13 – This matters when platforms destroy people’s life’s work over nothing – destiny
02:04 – Why is this video sponsored? Am I a shill?
02:38 – How did we solve this problem 20 years ago?
03:09 – Introducing Grayjay, our video application
03:20 – We support every major video platform
03:26 – We encourage YOU to make your own plugins for other platforms we are missing!
04:09 – It does the thing 🙂
04:27 – It has a download button!
04:35 – You can use video platform playlists, or anonymous local playlists
04:54 – You can search EVERY platform from one application
05:21 – We want to emphasize creators over platforms
05:32 – Introducing Harbor, our sovereign identity application
06:16 – You should be subscribing to CREATORS, not platforms
06:37 – Aspirational functionality for the future
06:55 – Comments sections
07:53 – This is open source, but it is NOT free!
08:22 – How to buy the application
08:32 – No DRM, infinite free trial period
08:41 – We want to show we respect our users – NO DRM, NO ADS!
08:54 – What happens if you don’t buy it? What’s our DRM/anti-piracy measure?
09:03 – There are no DRM or anti-piracy measure
09:06 – Our business model – you are the customer, not the product
09:51 – If you think our software sucks, tell us why – grayjay@futo.org
10:12 – Why the non-standard license?
10:23 – The problem with the standard license
11:19 – Let me be clear on our intentions with this license
12:27 – The software’s full functionality works without paying, but we ask you to pay if you find it valuable
12:50 – We want to see viewers supporting creators directly – because ad supported media sucks
13:40 – More future plans & vision
14:50 – Link to a more detailed technical presentation
LOUIS!!! You're REALLY walking a very fine line here when it comes to YT ToS/EULA and such. Please download all your videos just in case, because I feel like this time YT might actually kill your channel, since what you're doing hurts their business. Just my 25c. Stay safe.
Only for Android 10+ (SDK v29+). Would you mind mentioning this in the description and possibly as a pop-up during the video, so people don't try downloading and installing it on older devices?
please add ios support
FFS Louis, stop being so awesome!
A ONE TIME PURCHASE? no subscription cost? You had me at that. I would pay a hundred dollars for that and you've done it for ten. You goddamn hero, Louis.
Honestly, gonna buy it for me and my friends each just because of your commitment to honesty and transparency
Does it block ads?
instead of letting the users pays, you could ask the creators to pay to promote themselves (they are richer, and thus could bare more the cost)
Finally a place I can make videos and not get a strike 🤣thanks man
I am so down to using this app as my main and paying gor it, hell i wouldnt mind paying monthly just to support the idea, im already paying for youtube premium. Im going to pay either way to support yhe future of this app but i vant see it lasting that long because of how youtube hates these type of things and will likely dmca it sadly :/.
Do you think there is a way to secure its future from a legal perspective? Im really curious on what is the legality of this app and how youtube would react to it
I hate iPhone but am forced into it because of family so a iOS version would be nice.
Good shit louis just got myself a key 🤟
This is a BIG content creator paradigm change. This can allow content creators to flourish on a platform and allow them to migrate easily to another. For example, if anyone is famous in tiktok and that stupid app finally gets banned worldwide, then it's creators can move to other ones like twitch or any new niche ones. Awesome!
So you sell an application that uses the infrastructure of Google and others and remove the adds. Doesnt have Google right to earn money?
Not available for iPhone?
I'm curious if there is already tech in place at all for creators that upload a censored and uncensored version of their content to different sites so that they don't have duplicate content showing up.
The license doesn't seem very confident in being FOSS. As it can change at any time, without notice, without reason. And take all the previously given away.
This is in the license on gitlab:
## Section 4: Termination, suspension and variation
1. We may suspend, terminate or vary the terms of this license and any access to the code at any time,
without notice,
for any reason or no reason,
in respect of any licensee, group of licensees or all licensees including as may be applicable any sub-licensees.
Thank you for making this Louis, I will suggest this to friends over newpipe since most of them wont use f-droid
I was here before the Alphabet Hit Squad was sent to Louis' channel
Really nice app for the moment but the playstore app on Android doesn't work so maybe it's not the real one, gg!
i dont dl apps i want to watchy stuff on a website. does this exist on a website if so what is it
YES! Fantastic, I've been looking for something like this for years!… … But then Nooooo, you dont make it for apple devices?
It'd be lovely if this were on F – Droid
Man, that's an awesome idea!
But there's something I didn't quite understand. The app allows the user to log in to the platforms, but why would I, if I can subscribe to channels without doing it?
would love to see you work with people who made 'return dislike button' on your app so people see how good/bad video is
How do creators make money if you don't show us ads? Donations will be way less for some of them. How is this a sustainable business for creators?
Do you know when this will be open for ios and windows?
Also thanks for doing this.
Great video. Like others have noted, please double-check that the videos you really want to keep available are backed up elsewhere (I know you have channels on other platforms). We care about what you've done over the years and though they'll "algorithm" out of our homepages, we still go searching for your videos (or I do) when I don't see a new one for a while. My latest is just copying and pasting video URLs into a private window, so I like and comment normally but watch the video in the private window. I'm not circumventing adblocking, one of the things that has kept me sane (imo) over the last few years just for YT. idgaf it's two/three extra clicks. Now if only my mouse wasn't messing up…I'll get a new one eventually.
Will there be an official iOS version where people can sideload with altserver?
Is this available for desktop?
not sure why this is a mobile only app but sad to see them fail this bad, since the phone will still track and block everything they are trying to do google already prevents many 3rd party video apps from working on the pixel phones
Hey! Have you considered making a desktop client and/or browser extension? Since it's FOSS I'd expect someone to make it if yall don't… but that would be swell.
why did u use the twitter logo though
Do you plan to have a website version of this app? I mostly consume media via laptop and not phone. Or is it completely out of your scope?