cross-posted from: https://feddit.rocks/post/3214

So I created an open-source Lemmy bot to reply to posts/comments with YouTube links with converted Piped links to preserve your privacy.

Piped is an open-source alternative privacy-friendly frontend to YouTube. You can watch the same content from YouTube without connecting to Google’s servers.

You can find the source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot

You can find Piped’s source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

PS: I’m the author of Piped :P

  • @[email protected]
    15•1 year ago

    Thank you. people like u are the ones who r making this world bearable enough to live in.

    Hope u’r wary of the legal repercussions from Alphabet’s side. this doesn’t seem like a child’s play :/

  • @Barns
    5•1 year ago

    Looks cool! Do I need to specifically add it to a community, or are you scanning all comments on Lemmy.world?

    • @[email protected]OP
      5•1 year ago

      Currently, it scans all posts that are federated with my Lemmy instance (feddit.rocks), however, there are very few communities that it is scanning currently as there are very few users who have subscribed to communities on my instance.

      If more people register on my Lemmy instance and subscribe to more communities, it will scan those communities as well.

      I hope more users register on my instance so it can be listed on https://join-lemmy.org/instances too :) I currently lack the 5 active users requirement for that, unfortunately.

      Alternatively, I could maybe add a way for people to get the bot to subscribe to a community, so people from other instances can add communities to be scanned. 🤔

      • @BarnsEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        Got it, yes, I think having the bot subscribe to communities is a good way to solve this, and how I’ve seen it done. Basically users can message the bot with “subscribe <community url>”, the bot periodically checks its DMs, subscribes to the Communities and starts monitoring/processing them.

        You can add a small footnote to each message, telling them about your instance, so you also get “free publicity” 😉

        • @[email protected]OPEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format !community@instance.tld and it will try joining it :)

      • @[email protected]
        3•1 year ago

        I’m going to subscribe to your instance since you seem to have such cool ideas to help the fediverse and care about privacy.

  • @Freesoftwareenjoyer
    3•1 year ago

    Thanks for making this! I usually don’t post Piped or Invidious links, because most people don’t know what they are. But now the bot will do it for me and explain what it is!

    Piped is awesome too! Is integration with PeerTube planned? I don’t know how it would work exactly, but it would be nice if people gradually started switching to a decentralized platform. Maybe Piped could help make that easier somehow?

    • @[email protected]OP
      2•1 year ago

      If the Peertube developers find a way to make a way to find the same content there through some metadata, we could support it easily, but currently, there isn’t anything.

  • @[email protected]
    3•1 year ago

    Maybe this makes me a dummy, but I don’t understand the point of the bot? Like is it supposed to replace links that people post here from YouTube, with Piped instead?

  • @AProfessional
    -5•1 year ago

    Auto responding bots were the worst part of Reddit…

    • @[email protected]OP
      10•1 year ago

      I don’t think the current Lemmy clients allow hiding bots, but if they really bother you/people that much, it should possible to add options to hide bots altogether.

      • @[email protected]
        21•1 year ago

        The regular settings allow you to hide all accounts marked as bots. So yeah its possible as long as the are properly tagged.