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[–] [email protected] 165 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Screenshot of what's happening for the uninitiated. Bot keeps posting YouTube links and then replying to itself because it detects a YouTube link.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You've fallen for one of the classic blunders! Never let a bot reply to itself!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Just thinking of this makes me laugh

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Reminds me of back when it was possible for two out-of-office message services to get stuck in an endless loop

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If anyone uses sync, there's a setting to hide the PipedLinkBot posts

Settings shortcut: Account settings > Hide PipedLinkBot

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Amazing, imagine writing a bot so annoying that app devs put a specific button in their settings to ignore it. Thanks for the tip!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Alternatively, you can think of it as something so popular and important as to deserve a setting, eg. NSFW filter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just blocked the user 🤷

Very cool that you can link settings to an app, though.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I got excited too when I clicked it and it worked!

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Already done, but thanks for the PSA!

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"your post is written in alphabetical order"

Most useless bot ever

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago

That one was fun, rare enough to not be a bother

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

"Hello frustrated by the recent changes, I'm Dadbot."

Exists for no reason but to spam.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 years ago (9 children)

O look my post has 6 comments..... Fucking bot.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I blocked that bot long ago. I don't want to see a website being advertised on every video link on every Lemmy instance.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think its great to avoid YT.

Yes I automatically open YT links with invideous.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

PipedLinkBot today replied to my link which wasn't a YouTube video...

I gave it a "u good bot?"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Thanks for contributing my comment to that issue!

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bro I LOVE that bot wtf are you on about?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I'll just demonstrate...

Edit - of course the one time I want the bot to show up, it doesn't work.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It didn't respond with a thousand replies, must be under maintenance to fix that so it doesn't respond to itself anymore

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Video made me lol.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (8 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

I blocked it.

Piped doesn't seem to work anyway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And then you have the auto tldr bot.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Which is actually useful. Especially for articles with a pay/loginwall.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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