what does everyone think about piped bot and other bots

Atemu , 2 months ago

I don’t like the Piped bot at all.

What should be posted on the internet should be the canonical source of some content, not a proxy for it. If users prefer a proxy, they should configure their clients to redirect to the proxy. Piped instances come and go and the entire project is at the mercy of Google tolerating it/not taking action against it, so it could be gone tomorrow.

I use piped myself. I have client-side configurations which simply redirects all Youtube links to my piped instance. No need for any bots here.

Stovetop , 2 months ago

I ended up blocking PipedBot. The links seldom work and I got tired of seeing posts look like they have comments to start discussion but it’s just PipedBot.

ThatWeirdGuy1001 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

My only issue is the reply shouldn’t be as long as it is. .

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It shouldn’t be this big

fratermus , 2 months ago

What are everyone’s thoughts on bots like piped bot and tdlr bot

I don’t mind them. If I did I’d block them.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres , 2 months ago

I like the TLDR bot but I wouldn’t rely on it for anything important. I’ll read the summary and if it’s just some fluff piece, I’m not too worried about it if it skipped a detail. But for serious journalism, I read the article. There’s a huge difference between an article about a video game or celebrity and an article about a war or natural disaster.

Piped bot doesn’t seem to work for me anyway but I don’t usually click video links. I prefer text to video for actual info so I mostly just click the videos on a comment when it’s an obvious joke and they’re referencing something funny.

Linkerbaan , 2 months ago

Take up too much space in comments and often not very useful.

Wahots , 2 months ago

I find them a bit annoying, particularly TLDR bot, as it sometimes butchers articles by leaving out key information, so much so that it nearly borders on misinformation (eg, in an article about a SE Asian country voting on gay marriage, it cut out all portions about the vote, suggesting that it was legalized when it hadn’t been voted on yet or passed.)

Unfortunately, it gets highly upvoted, so many people skip the article and think that this country now has legalized gay marriage when it actually has not.

HipsterTenZero , 2 months ago

I appreciate them, but never use them. I already auto-redirect youtube links to an alt frontend, and already don’t read articles.

Omega_Haxors , 2 months ago

Piped is the only way to prevent youtube’s spying from fucking up my algorithm even though I went out of the way to open it in incognito

livus , 2 months ago

I have history and recs turned off in youtube, it's great. The front page is blank with a search bar.

Omega_Haxors , 2 months ago

I still need it for finding stuff that isn’t oops all sports and celebrity bullshit.

livus , 2 months ago

It used to be good, but in recent years it's become so bad that I'd rather no recs.

Omega_Haxors , 2 months ago

Yeah, pretty much.

blackn1ght , 2 months ago

I never bother clicking the piped bot links, and I’m not a fan of the tldr bot either as I think there’s activity on a post but it turns out it’s just the bot.

clot27 , 2 months ago

Both of em pretty good

southsamurai , 2 months ago

I bloody love them both. Yeah, tldr isn’t perfect, but it’s usually “good enough”. And the piped bot makes life so much easier for anyone wanting to share something cool without having to jump through that extra hoop.

True QOL bots, both of them

Zerlyna , 2 months ago

TLDR bot often takes items out of context and come off just plain wrong. Or it’s a long article skips important things entirely. To get the correct story just read the original.

altima_neo , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Piped bot is annoying. I never bother using it’s links. I have ReVanced for that. I don’t know if the links it makes are actually useful to anyone.

noughtnaut , 2 months ago

What I would love is a bot that takes yt links and posts the corresponding title and description of the video.

Atemu , 2 months ago

This would better be done in the front-end rather than a comment bot.

DABDA , 2 months ago

The Piped bot pisses me off because it doesn’t seem to check if the triggering comment already includes the exact link it’s about to post. I used to preemptively include Piped links with any YouTube ones but since it would trigger the bot anyway I just stopped bothering.

Aside from the clutter it adds, until I added the bot itself to my blocklist (instead of just relying on “Show bots” being unchecked in settings) it would also cause reply notifications that couldn’t be cleared in the default Lemmy web UI.