What are everyone’s thoughts on bots like piped bot and tdlr bot
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My only issue is the reply shouldn’t be as long as it is. .
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It shouldn’t be this big
Pipedbot is great, I didn’t know about piped until I came to Lemmy and now I use it pretty frequently
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
I have history and recs turned off in youtube, it’s great. The front page is blank with a search bar.
I still need it for finding stuff that isn’t oops all sports and celebrity bullshit. I’ve spent years telling it what i’m not into, even though it still suggests most of it.
It used to be good, but in recent years it’s become so bad that I’d rather no recs.
Yeah, pretty much.
Great to have the tl;dr bot here.
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 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 it’s 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
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.
I appreciate them, but never use them. I already auto-redirect youtube links to an alt frontend, and already don’t read articles.
Piped bot is annoying. I never bother using it’s links. I have ReVanced for that. I didn’t know if the jobs it makes are actually useful to anyone.
What I would love is a bot that takes yt links and posts the corresponding title and description of the video.
Both of em pretty good
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
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.
Also will never present things like date of publication or author. Both of which can change the context of the whole thing.
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.
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.
Take up too much space in comments and often not very useful.
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.
