• @panic
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    42 years ago

    The popular instances disable subtitles for some technical reason. I think there’s a rate limit and they avoid getting blocked by YouTube? There’s a github issue, maybe you’ll understand it better than I did. If you need subs you should to go to the less popular ones. Piped doesn’t have this problem.

    • Ah, that makes sense; YouTube certainly imposes rate limits on queries.

      For those who need subs and like using terminals, youtube-dl (or one of the forks) is capable of downloading videos along with subtitles