Haven’t done these in a while, so let’s get started.
Since we haven’t really heard any feedback one way or the other, rule 8 is now official. To be fair, we’ve had a lot less microblog posts than I expected (only one Twitter/X post in the last month even after I waited longer than the initial 1-2 weeks expected, and that was a crosspost.)
Again, the rules are always a work in progress, feel free to give your two cents here whenever you like.
As you guys know, PipedLinkBot went completely insane 2 days ago and looks like it’s temporarily shut down. So, I’d like to use this opportunity to explain why I banned the bot pretty much immediately after our community reopened. (And gloat a bit, of course)
Even though I do agree with the principle of using open source, privacy focused frontend instead of using Youtube directly, I have a real problem with using a bot to respond every time somebody posts a Youtube link. It feels like spam, and it doesn’t feel like it serves any utility besides pushing an agenda (even though many people here would agree with it). Most people have seen it around here enough to use pipedvideo if they wanted it to use it already.
I think it’s always been a rage inducing part of the reddit experience that you see you received a response to your comment, but only have it been a bot smugly correcting your grammar or tell you all your letters are in order or something useless like that. So, for this place, I would like to make sure that everyone you talk to here is a real person as much as possible, because people inspire people to be greater, but bots don’t.
I only use lemmy via mobile. There are tools available for redirecting on android also but its kinda nice to just have a link 🤷 I think it makes privacy more accessible
I’m with you on that one. I use a 3rd party app and it’s nice getting that piped link. It uses the in-app browser and I don’t have to go through any extra steps
As much as foss is pushed on here (fediverse) I appreciate the accessibility the bot provided until I make change of life approach to alternatives
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I rather liked the piped link bot. It was nice to always be presented with an option 🤷 but thats just me
Use the browser extension for redirect. It also lets you choose piped instances
Great idea actually.
I only use lemmy via mobile. There are tools available for redirecting on android also but its kinda nice to just have a link 🤷 I think it makes privacy more accessible
I’m with you on that one. I use a 3rd party app and it’s nice getting that piped link. It uses the in-app browser and I don’t have to go through any extra steps
As much as foss is pushed on here (fediverse) I appreciate the accessibility the bot provided until I make change of life approach to alternatives