That guy used to be cool.

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
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.
- “Stop replying all!! Can you take me off this email thread please?!”
  
  The people who got pissed off were the best. And the whole company would see it. Those were the 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

Settings shortcut: Account settings > Hide PipedLinkBot

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
Already done, but thanks for the PSA!
Beat me to it
- Thank you for your work, and the years and years of sync 👊🏼
- Thanks for being a step ahead.
Thank you!

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.

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

The bot is god damn annoying at this point. There's hardly anyone who cares enough about "pRiVaCy" as if we all aren't logged into lemmy using our god damn google accounts
- Using our google accounts ... for Lemmy?
- Yea at this point im just putting on a show for all the hackers watching on my camera
- I can't imagine anyone that concerned about privacy is so unprepared and unknowledgable online that they need the internet to cater privacy alternatives for them.
  
  "I dOn'T wAnT mY dAtA aLL oUt ThErE!!!"
  
  "Totally understandable. So what steps are you taking?"
  
  "PeOpLe HaVe tO dO iT FoR mE!!"
  
  So now we all must suffer?

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.

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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

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.
- I am sure I saw an app on F-Droid that can do redirects, but cannot recall the name right now.
- For Piped you can install LibreTube and set it to open YT and a bunch of Piped links by default.
As far as I can tell that's another way to link to piped.kavin.rocks aka not any instance but rather the official one, I highly doubt that will go away...

https://youtu.be/tJjhObngcxI

Muhaha.

Video made me lol.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://youtu.be/tJjhObngcxI

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

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

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

A clip? What is that?
- On YouTube you can make clips from videos and share those links to highlight parts of the video
  
  For example: This is a link to a part of a YouTube video.
Does piped support clips at all? I guess not, cuz the bot basically just swaps YouTube.com for piped.whatever so piped is handling the /clip/… but only playing the whole video