THE PRIVACY APP OF YOUR DREAMS! :3
Be anonymous while watching videos, gaming, and listening to music on Poke - the free privacy front-end!
## Welcome!
Welcome to Poke (formerly PokeTube), the privacy-friendly YouTube front-end built with the invidious API!
## Features
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| 🔙 Built-In Return YouTube Dislikes
See the dislikes from *returnyoutubedislike* - because sometimes you need to know how bad that video really is :3 |
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| 📱 PWA Support
With PWA Support, you can install Poke on your mobile device. Now you can pretend to be productive while watching cat videos on the go, mreoww! :3 | 
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| 🎨 Customize
Customize Poke however you want. Make it as unique as your taste in memes. | 📥 Accounts
Suscribe (yes Suscribe hehe sussy baka) to whaever channel you want! |
| 🔍 Web Search
Search the web privately on PokeTube. Incognito mode who? | 🎶 And...
Ambient mode, HQ audio, and even more! :3 |
## No Non-Free Codec Needed
Poke uses OpenH264, which is free software! No non-free components included :3 View the source code of OpenH264 [here](https://github.com/cisco/openh264.git). Because who wants to deal with non-free stuff? Not us!~
## Hosting Poke
### NodeJS
1. **Install Packages**
- Fedora/RHEL GNU/linux: `$ sudo dnf install git make gcc libcurl nodejs python libcurl g++ curl-config`
- Debian/Ubuntu GNU/linux: `$ sudo apt install git make gcc libcurl4-openssl-dev nodejs npm python g++`
- Alpine Linux (non-gnu): `$ apk add git nodejs npm python make gcc g++ libcurl curl-dev`
2. **Clone Repo**
- Codeberg: `$ git clone https://codeberg.org/ashley/poke.git`
- GitHub: `$ git clone https://github.com/ashley0143/poke.git`
reccomended unoffical mirrors:
- git.lgbt: `$ git clone https://git.lgbt/mirror/poke.git` [sync every 10mins]
- nin0git :`$ git clone https://git.nin0.dev/mirrors/poke.git` [sync every 10mins]
not reccomended, unstable
- none!!! yippee
3. **Install Dependencies**
- `$ cd poke`
- `$ npm install`
4. **Start Server**
- `$ node server.js`
Congrats! Poke should now be running on `localhost:6003`! 🎉
## Poke Community
Join us on [Discord](https://discord.poketube.fun/) or [Matrix](https://matrix.to/#/#poke:vern.cc)! I promise we're cool! <3
or if u like fedi, we host [PokeSocial](https://social.poketube.fun) as well :3
## The Legal Stuff (boring tbh)
the main parts of the project is Under GPL-3.0-OR-LATER :3
see the each sections LICENSE tho!!
Copyleft 2021-202x Poke Project of poke initative, mostly ashley0143
Trans rights!
https://initiative.poketube.fun/
poke proudly does not support the ["source first"](https://sourcefirst.com/) or ["open source"](https://opensource.org) movement :3
we support the free software movement (fsf.org)
[Code Of conduct](https://codeberg.org/Ashley/poke/src/branch/main/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md)
[Privacy Policy](https://poketube.fun/privacy)
TL;DR: we dont collect or share your personal info that's it lol
Poke is proudly powered by AMD + Ubuntu servers!!!!!!!!!! (via Skrime Hosting). Parts of Poke ran on Glitch.com from 2021–2023.
