what does everyone think about piped bot and other bots

yeah , 2 months ago

Unpaywall bot would be more useful than tldr. Probably.

mihnt , 2 months ago

Certainly better than any reddit bots.

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

Linkerbaan , 2 months ago

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

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.

Flaky , 2 months ago

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.

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

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.

Thorny_Insight , 2 months ago

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

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.

lemmyreader , 2 months ago

Great to have the tl;dr bot here.

livus , 2 months ago

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

eco_game , 2 months ago

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

livus , 2 months ago

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 , 2 months ago

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.

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.

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.

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.