You need to trigger the initial fetch of your community first. You can do so by searching for it from the desired instance’s search bar as !yourcommunity@youtinstance. After a few minutes the posts from this newly federated community should appear in the instance’s feed.

Note this is different than just downloading music from YouTube

No, it isn’t. Just remove the music. subdomain and download the music aa you wpuld normally from YouTube.

Excuse me, did you even read what you have linked? The first link literally explains the privacy policy of “the NewPipe’s” website.

Also, what the fuck is even newpipe.app? https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe The GH repo as well as the F-Droid release all link to newpipe.net and I couldn’t find any reference to the .app website there.

And that’s why you need punctuation kids.

I’ve been using Youtube Music with a custom front end (Innertune app) lately and it’s a decent compromise between piracy and paying for a good streaming service — everything is free, it is streamed, I have an access to a huge library of music and the only downside is that the songs might have poorer quality

It’s pretty much the only way they enforce stuff here in Ukraine. Back in 2015 when the government blocked social media websites tied to Russian companies and in 2022 when .ru domains were blocked, changing your DNS provider didn’t help. I’m not sure about piracy sites, though, because everyone kinda doesn’t care about this stuff here, but I don’t think they would invent other mechanisms when they have a working one that doesn’t rely on DNS.

Sometimes the block is on whole different level than a DNS

For example, when your country could monitor your Internet connections to see if you access resources from a hostile country.

I haven’t visited the site intentionally from my devices in years

I mean the binary, y’know, the game one. They can’t be seriously allowed to distribute this on Github, can they?

Since it is hosted on GitHub, I assume I should search for the binary elsewhere. Or does it automatically download it from somewhere?..