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I imagine it lurking in the shadows, waiting to strike (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world to c/dankmemes@lemmy.world

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[-] konalt@lemmy.world 87 points 2 years ago

It's a thankless job

[-] Moskus@lemmy.world 67 points 2 years ago

It would be stupid, but very funny if someone created a YouTube bot for Piped links...

[-] konalt@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago

They'd get into an endless loop of responding to each other. Just a regular internet conversation then

[-] Pistcow@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago

Like when the reddit lotr bots get stuck in a loop.

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[-] yote_zip@pawb.social 42 points 2 years ago

What is the etiquette for posting YT links in this scenario? If the content is from YT I'd prefer to post the canonical link instead of a mirror that may go down or may get hugged to death. If you'd rather view on a mirror I'd suggest you use e.g. LibRedirect. Does this make sense? Are there better ideas? I'd like to promote non-YT frontends but am not sure what the best option here would be.

[-] jackoneill@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

I would say just post the YT link and let folks do what they want with it. When someone only posts a piped link I don’t bother clicking because they are very unreliable for me and I pay for YouTube so I like to just use it and not deal with the bs.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

Piped is not a mirror, it's just like a backdoor access to the original YouTube video.

So if you can access it on YT, you can access it on Piped

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

So if you can access it on YT, you can access it on Piped

Unless Piped dies

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 points 2 years ago

Piped can't die. It's just software. Maybe one instance can "die" and go offline for some reason but there are thousands more.

Same for Invidious.

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Oh, I thought it's a single website. My bad

[-] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

The bot OP is talking about links to a single website. But the code running the site is used to run many sites like it. Similar to how Lemmy works.

That's my understanding, anyway. I haven't looked too much into it, so I could be wrong.

[-] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

I can't imagine there'd be any damage to posting two or more links: the YT one, a piped one, an invidious one, etc... All sides of the conversation that matter are covered.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 19 points 2 years ago

Hot take: Piped API sucks and is a giant waste of resources (unless you're running your own instance)

[-] madcaesar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

What is it exactly?

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 points 2 years ago

It's a proxy to access YouTube privately. But all the servers are overloaded.

[-] LordKitsuna@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

What does that have to do with the API though? You said that the API sucks I'm curious about that part. I understand thinking the public instances suck because they can never keep up and get overloaded but your original comment said that the API itself was bad somehow.

[-] MikuNPC@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

By API I think he meant the default API endpoint, not the API specification

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[-] Lanky_Pomegranate530@midwest.social 15 points 2 years ago

I found Piped to be way too slow. Use Freetube instead.

[-] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

I'm vibing with invidious

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 13 points 2 years ago

I blocked it because Piped never seems to work.

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 years ago

Do content creators get views if I watch a video through any of the front-ends?

[-] Amends1782@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 years ago

Content creators get almost nothing from ads. You're better off donating $5 to their buymeacoffee or patreon or similar, etc.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's not true and I don't know where this comes from. Ask anyone who actually is successful on YouTube and they will tell you YouTube ads pay quite well and their revenue share is very favorable.

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