what does everyone think about piped bot and other bots

sylver_dragon , 2 months ago

It’s a mixed bag. Piped bot is just generally “meh” for me. With all the ad blocking I have turned on, I don’t really see ads on Youtube and would rather give what little support my views provide to the creators on the platform. I also subscribe to Nebula to try and support them directly.

Many of the bots, especially the really noisy re-post type bots I tend to block. Sure, I want to see content on Lemmy, but a bot reposting everything from a site has a problem with just creating a lot of noise without any sort of filtering for interesting content. But, since I can block them selectively, I’d rather people had the room to create and I’ll just remove the ones I don’t like from my feed. Everyone wins.

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.

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.

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.

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

clot27 , 2 months ago

Both of em pretty good

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.

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.

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.

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.

Linkerbaan , 2 months ago

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

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.

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.

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

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.