Screenshot of what's happening for the uninitiated. Bot keeps posting YouTube links and then replying to itself because it detects a YouTube link.
You've fallen for one of the classic blunders! Never let a bot reply to itself!
ahh, I rember that old time I wanted to make a "your mom bot" for discord, one of the function was saying "No, your mom" when someone said in a phrase "your mom", little did I know that discord bots read their own messages if you don't check it
Just thinking of this makes me laugh
Reminds me of back when it was possible for two out-of-office message services to get stuck in an endless loop
I killed an old exchange server with an auto reply to a coworker who had an auto reply to me.
Those were the good old days.
Someone needs to make a PR to add a check for the username of the commenter that they're replying to. Should be a simple conditional check.
If anyone uses sync, there's a setting to hide the PipedLinkBot posts
Amazing, imagine writing a bot so annoying that app devs put a specific button in their settings to ignore it. Thanks for the tip!
Alternatively, you can think of it as something so popular and important as to deserve a setting, eg. NSFW filter
I don't even understand why the bot exists? If you have newpipe or other yt apps installed, it automatically sends you there when clicking YouTube links. You can do the same within Firefox on PC.
I just blocked the user 🤷
Very cool that you can link settings to an app, though.
Lmao, this was the first opportunity I had to post a link to settings. I got way too excited. I need to get out more I guess
I got excited too when I clicked it and it worked!
Already done, but thanks for the PSA!
at least there are no grammar nazi bots, yet
"Pardon the interruption, but there appears to be a mistake in your 3 words reply. Here is a 5 paragraphs post, explaining the history of language starting from mesozoic era and extracts from 5 dictionaries on the word you just misspelled"
and then they make a separate bot for each possible mistake, so you have to block them over and over.
"your post is written in alphabetical order"
Most useless bot ever
That one was fun, rare enough to not be a bother
"Hello frustrated by the recent changes, I'm Dadbot."
Exists for no reason but to spam.
I blocked that bot long ago. I don't want to see a website being advertised on every video link on every Lemmy instance.
I don't see it as an advertisement. It's the same as e.g. the AMPutator bot - it provides a convenient way to circumvent Google's monopoly.
I guess it would feel less intrusive if it weren't four spaced out lines where most comments are one.
Regardless, even if it's for a good cause, it is an advertisement. It's informing users of Piped for the purpose of getting them to use it. Existing Piped users already have a convenient way to set up redirects, which have been posted several times.
I guess it seems a lot nicer to people who actually want to use the service, but to people who don't, it's just advertising.
PipedLinkBot today replied to my link which wasn't a YouTube video...
I gave it a "u good bot?"
Beepity boopity: Link to comment where it happened
Be a friend of the FOSS, open a GitHub issue.
Edit: actually I see someone did. I added a link to your post as another example.
Thanks for contributing my comment to that issue!
I think its great to avoid YT.
Yes I automatically open YT links with invideous.
Invidious, Piped, etc. instances come and go. We shouldn't link to them and break links.
let's just install LibRedirect or Privacy Redirect extention and just pick our own.
If I could get either LibRedirect or Privacy Redirect in my Firefox based mobile browser I totally would. I'm just not 100% sure whether or not the feature from Firefox Beta allowing for using collections of desktop extensions- if the extension you want even works on mobile- has come to normal Firefox for android yet.
Bro I LOVE that bot wtf are you on about?
I'll just demonstrate...
Edit - of course the one time I want the bot to show up, it doesn't work.
It didn't respond with a thousand replies, must be under maintenance to fix that so it doesn't respond to itself anymore
I love the Ruby/Sapphire version of that annoying trumpet
https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=G4nIvgHypg4
Invidious so the bot doesn't go crazy
It also doesn't work properly if you share a clip from a YouTube video
The link it posts just takes you to the full video
And then you have the auto tldr bot.
Which is actually useful. Especially for articles with a pay/loginwall.
I blocked it.
Piped doesn't seem to work anyway.
