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`
(we dont know if it works on non-gnu systems)
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.
poketube.fun is proudly powered by amd and ubuntu servers! powered by skrime hosting!
Parts of Poke were hosted on Glitch.com from 2021 to 2023.
