I had a similar time with piped not working reliably, I prefer invidious, specifically iv.ggtyler.dev has pretty much always worked for me

Anyways, It’s really easy to just swap for another instance or whatever

OP link is

https://piped.video/watch?v=YnSv8ylLfPw

Just take everything after the domain and TLD

(everything after “piped.video”)

And slap it on the end of another instances domain and TLD

(For example iv.ggtyler.dev)

End result:

iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=YnSv8ylLfPw

It even works with YouTube:

youtube.com/watch?v=YnSv8ylLfPw