What are everyone’s thoughts on bots like piped bot and tdlr bot
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Certainly better than any reddit bots.
If I wanted to read reddit, I’d go to reddit.
I think they live on a beautiful botfarm somewhere. They come here every day and give us the same alternative links to youtube videos and alike over and over again. Their life is simple. They don’t engage much. They find purpose in the small tasks we give them. And I think they are happy.
This was beautiful to read. Thank you!
Like them both. But theyre both flawed.
Piped doesn’t seems to always work for me. Tldr bot doesñsn’t always provide vital information
I don’t click piped links myself, but some people find them useful.
As for tldr bot, it’s useful insofar it gets an idea across for weather I want to read the article, but leaves out a lot of information, often vital to the story, and leaves in fluff.
They aren’t perfect, but useful for some.
Same. Personally, for whatever reason, piped links almost never work for me. I’m sure they work for others or the bot posts wouldn’t get upvotes. Revanced or Firefox with a blocker almost always work for me though.
It’s a mixed bag. Piped bot is just generally “meh” for me. With all the ad blocking I have turned on, I don’t really see ads on Youtube and would rather give what little support my views provide to the creators on the platform. I also subscribe to Nebula to try and support them directly.
Many of the bots, especially the really noisy re-post type bots I tend to block. Sure, I want to see content on Lemmy, but a bot reposting everything from a site has a problem with just creating a lot of noise without any sort of filtering for interesting content. But, since I can block them selectively, I’d rather people had the room to create and I’ll just remove the ones I don’t like from my feed. Everyone wins.
TLDR bot often takes items out of context and come off just plain wrong. Or it’s a long article skips important things entirely. To get the correct story just read the original.
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 never bother clicking the piped bot links, and I’m not a fan of the tldr bot either as I think there’s activity on a post but it turns out it’s just the bot.
I appreciate them, but never use them. I already auto-redirect youtube links to an alt frontend, and already don’t read articles.
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.
Take up too much space in comments and often not very useful.
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.
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.
My only issue is the reply shouldn’t be as long as it is. .
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It shouldn’t be this big
