Hi, author of the Piped link bot here! I think this is meme great feedback to throw light on some issues on the experience with the bot. 😂 I'll open an issue at https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot to track this later.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago

It's THE kavin, great to see you on here! You're the one that really rocks!

Thanks for your work on Piped. Youtube links here go straight to NewPipe so I've been able to avoid all of Google's latest shenanigans courtesy of your team.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 8 points 11 months ago

It is very annoying tbh. I dont want to always suck your resources, and Youtube just works with privacy clients currently. So when they dont work anymore, then this may be useful. But then Piped would probably be blocked too.

I appreciate the work but its quite annoying that every youtube link gets a piped link instead, even though I purposefully use youtube links as Grayjay, Newpipe, Pipepipe, Freetube etc. work just fine.

[–] RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

I find the bot very useful when I’m on a device without Newspipe or whatever like an IPhone. I know it’s piped bot, but could it also provide a invidious link as sometimes I run into a speed/bug problem with piped (probably because web view sucks, if I open a link in a proper browser the bugs are gone)

[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I've seen those piped links all the time but I'm still not really sure what the advantage is, or what problem it's solving.

Would you mind explaining a bit about why you made piped, and why I should probably use it?

[–] shrugal@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Google can't track the videos you watched using Piped, all they see is the Piped server fetching it from them to deliver it to you. Also no ads, and you can control things like recommendations to not get sucked into an endless YT loop.

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

more privacy respecting i guess

[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

They never work for me 😢

[+] toastal@lemmy.ml -6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you like free software & promoting free services (as in freedom) why is your source code on Microsoft GitHub’s proprietary social network / Git forge where accounts + ToS agreements are required to contribute & the platform has anti-features trying to force engagement on users? At a minimum, I would expect a mailing list to send patches or mirroring to a free (as in freedom) forge if not an all-out migration.

[–] mory@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

On what grounds do you expect anything of someone working on an open source project? If your goal really is to spread awareness about (completely valid imo) concerns regarding GitHub, I'd suggest you not to do it in such a hostile way.

[–] toastal@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What I expected to see is not the same as what I expect someone to do.

Mailing lists used to be the norm, more free software has been migrating… but also in this specific case the maker is promoting user not use a Google-owned proprietary platform while hosting on a Microsoft-owned proprietary platform which smells of hypocrisy--especially when with code forges there are several great alternative options.

[–] mory@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Notice that I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying that if you want to get your point across, it's unhelpful to take an offensive stance against the person you're trying to convince.