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DosDude , (edited )
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I don’t click piped links myself, but some people find them useful.

As for tldr bot, it’s useful insofar it gets an idea across for wether I want to read the article, but leaves out a lot of information, often vital to the story, and leaves in fluff.

They aren’t perfect, but useful for some.

MrVilliam ,

Same. Personally, for whatever reason, piped links almost never work for me. I’m sure they work for others or the bot posts wouldn’t get upvotes. Revanced or Firefox with a blocker almost always work for me though.

squirrel ,
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I think they live on a beautiful botfarm somewhere. They come here every day and give us the same alternative links to youtube videos and alike over and over again. Their life is simple. They don’t engage much. They find purpose in the small tasks we give them. And I think they are happy.

Devdogg ,

This was beautiful to read. Thank you!

Habahnow ,

Like them both. But theyre both flawed.

Piped doesn’t seems to always work for me. Tldr bot doesñsn’t always provide vital information

wewbull ,

PipedBot: no issues with it.

TldrBot: I get frustrated with the number of times I see a story where only the bot has commented. “There’s someone here… No there’s not”.

It’s not the bots fault really, but I wonder if it should wait until somebody else has commented so zero comment stories stay at zero.

orgrinrt ,

I think most clients should implement some kind of logic to remove bot comments form the comment counts. AFAIK, lemmy already has a feature to distinguish bots(?), so it should probably should be possible to at least suggest some easy enough api for that if none exist currently.

Azzu ,

Comment count should really just show “0 (1) comments”

mihnt ,

Certainly better than any reddit bots.

If I wanted to read reddit, I’d go to reddit.

livus ,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

I never see them, I think we got to opt out of them when we signed up?

eco_game ,

There’s a lemmy profile setting whether to show bots, you probably have that turned off.

livus ,
@livus@kbin.social avatar

I'm on kbin and can't find it. What are the bots like these days? Is it just these two bots or are there repost bots trying to copy reddit content?

eco_game ,

I have bots on and it’s mostly ever these two.

There are still reddit repost bots, but they are all on reddit repost instances. As I have those like two or three instances blocked, I don’t see any of them.

yeah ,

Unpaywall bot would be more useful than tldr. Probably.

bstix ,

The piped bot links don’t work me and I don’t need them anyway.

On android, I changed the default permissions from the regular YouTube app to “ask every time”. Other installed apps that support YouTube links will then show up in the prompt when opening YouTube links.

Mr_Fish ,

Conceptually useful bots (even if they aren’t always great) like those two I approve of. You can easily ignore them, but they’re there for when you want them.

The meme bots that were on reddit like grond we could do without. They were fun at the time, but I’m glad we don’t have them here.

lemmyreader ,

Great to have the tl;dr bot here.

robocall ,
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I like both of them. I’m pro bot. I miss the spaghetti hentai bot.

bionicjoey , (edited )

Pipedbot: hate it. Piped has never once worked for me and the bot’s formatted comments are massive. If you prefer an alternative YouTube frontend, it should be on you to open it using the canonical link you’re given IMO. I blocked this bot months ago.

TLDR bot: I didn’t like it back when it didn’t use spoiler tags since its comments were enormous. Now I don’t mind as long as it makes them collapsible by default.

Other bots: it depends on what they do and how obtrusively they do it

Flaky ,
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I use a redirector extension for YouTube so PipedBot is useless and annoying for me. I’d rather someone just give me a YouTube URL and let the redirector extension do its work.

TL;DRbot is okay, I guess.

Rebels_Droppin ,
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Pipedbot is great, I didn’t know about piped until I came to Lemmy and now I use it pretty frequently

Thorny_Insight ,

I blocked the piped bot. Don’t care about the rest.

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