I tried to float that idea in a few niche communities. I was downvoted to all hell, two of them outright removed the post :P I think the majority of reddit doesn’t care, sadly

The devs of invidious need to be more careful and circumspect in their language and response. I believe they have a good chance of fighting this, and continuing the project regardless, but Don’t. Tickle. The dragon tail!

One, how does this differ from a GNOME or XFCE (or KDE) rice?

Two… JavaScript???

I’m not a coder but uh… Is that a good idea?

Its not too far off. No, its not like an ISP or a central server, but each instance IS a “provider” of a server and service. It’s not the worst moniker I have heard

Agree on a technical level, but in terms of the average netizen being able to visualize the relationship, “providers” makes it much easier