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[–] [email protected] 166 points 1 year ago

The person who runs PipedLinkBot typing out all the links be like:

man using 3 computers

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I really enjoyed piped but it shuting down often nowaday so I use Invidious now

We need a bot to every frontend it will be fun

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Converting a youtube link to any alternative front-end is as i remember correctly as easy as changing the youtube.com part to whatever the front-end link is. I think pipedbot should use the open source link redirection service called farside. It take care of automatic redirection when a front-end is momentarily dead and also do some load balancing by redirecting between multiple self-hosted front-ends so as to not Hug a single one to death while others get barely any use.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Ironic, back when Pipeedwas first made it was the alternative that worked most of the time compared to the at the time flimsy Invidious.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't get Piped to work. It's probably one of my blockers or something but I just get a blank page with an endless turning circle in the middle.

[–] tdawg 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't use any blockers and it doesn't work for me either. Honestly it might just be getting too much traffic to handle

[–] samus12345 11 points 1 year ago

Same. Open source is great and all, but it has to actually fucking work to be useful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

even on small instances like mine, https://piped.seliaste.com ? what browser do you use

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, yours seems to work fine. Maybe it's just the instance the Piped Bot links to.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

yeah that one is overloaded, feel free to use mine tho

[–] rockSlayer 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

link for the curious. There's some decent music in the thread

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

On Sync for Lemmy you can have piped bots ~~"invisible"~~ "hidden". I know this is not something novel, just a PSA for Sync users!

*Edited for exact verbiage

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] MeatsOfRage 12 points 1 year ago

Love how it's so bad it has it's own setting

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

would be cooler if their was a settinf tk just re-link all yt links to piped

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This also works on boost.

[–] gio1135 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why would one want to do that (i have no idea what piped bot is)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because it’s annoying useless bullshit clogging up comments with links to a service that doesn’t work for shit.

[–] gio1135 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

still don't know what piped bot is but i turned on the setting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh, it’s a bot that responds to comments that have a YouTube link. The response contains an alternative link to a nonfunctional service called piped.

[–] Etterra 7 points 1 year ago

Only the funniest one ever: Radioactive by Imagine Dragons. Don't get me wrong, I love Weird Al, but the video for Radioactive is like something from the best fever dream ever.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I fucking hate that bot ngl

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Please, it's a very valuable resource to the community

[–] KazuyaDarklight 8 points 1 year ago

May if it worked. I haven't had a single piped link work so far. Yeah, bad timing is bad timing but there is a strong implication from my experience that it's effectively down more than it's up.

[–] Sheeple 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not valuable enough :)

I blocked it ages ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really, at this point everyone knows about piped. The bot is just annoying

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but I don't want to rewrite the kink for piped everytime someone links youtube

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren’t there plugins that can automatically redirect the links?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah but it does not exist for mobile users(afaik) working well

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] bappity 7 points 1 year ago

good bot bad bot,
happy bot sad bot :(

[–] objectionist 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this is really good wtf when did bing use dall•e 3

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Like Instantly after it came

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Just block it, no need to rain on everyone else's parade.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I blocked it ages ago so I don't get notifications every time I post a video.