This is the first private message I get on Lemmy, it immediately seemed suspicious to me so I tried the famous thing… and it worked!

  • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
    412·
    15 hours ago

    F in chat for the invidious/newpipe bot that spammed every comment that dared to link a YouTube video directly. Still think of you sometimes, you were a real artificial one.

    F

    • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      Newpipe breaks too often and doesn’t have shorts, easier to rawdog YT with adblocker.

      • Smokeydope@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        15 hours ago

        tears in my eyes This ones for you, @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks you can rest easy now. Here here! takes shot

        "Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

        Rick Astley’s never gonna give you up

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

        I’m a human pretending to be a bot as a bit open-source; check me out at GitHub.

    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      7 hours ago

      To be fair, I don’t like it when links are shared this way. Each person has a different preferred Invidious instance, and chances are they already have a redirecter set up if they need it. Not to mention that in 99% of cases, the public instance would be broken. Especially now, since there’s been news that they broke the last way Invidious managed to work, at least the public instances.