• SwampYankee@mander.xyzOP
    1623·
    2 years ago

    Screenshot of what’s happening for the uninitiated. Bot keeps posting YouTube links and then replying to itself because it detects a YouTube link.

      • OrangeXarot@sh.itjust.works
        26·
        2 years ago

        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

      • averagedrunk@lemmy.ml
        12·
        2 years ago

        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.

        • 018118055@sopuli.xyz
          3·
          2 years ago

          I broke my brother’s exchange beta 4 install by telnetting into SMTP port and sending an email with an accidentally typo’d recipient. The bounce bounced, that bounce bounced and it continued until priv.edb was full and the service crashed. After a morning on the phone with Microsoft support he asked me if I did it. They made a hotfix for the bug.

      • Treatyoself
        4·
        2 years ago

        “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.

    • sheogorath
      11·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • elFlexor
      532·
      2 years ago

      Amazing, imagine writing a bot so annoying that app devs put a specific button in their settings to ignore it. Thanks for the tip!

      • Player2@sopuli.xyz
        151·
        2 years ago

        Alternatively, you can think of it as something so popular and important as to deserve a setting, eg. NSFW filter

      • Anamana@feddit.de
        7·
        2 years ago

        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.

    • charlesEnglish
      291·
      2 years ago

      I just blocked the user 🤷

      Very cool that you can link settings to an app, though.

      • root@lemmy.zipEnglish
        29·
        2 years ago

        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

        • NightAuthorEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          What does the UI for a settings page link look like? They just have a share button in settings?

          • root@lemmy.zipEnglish
            4·
            2 years ago

            Just long press and it auto copies a link to that setting. Pretty neat

  • bodgeit@lemmy.sdf.org
    663·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
    389·
    2 years ago

    I blocked that bot long ago. I don’t want to see a website being advertised on every video link on every Lemmy instance.

    • FooBarrington
      615·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • Sotuanduso@lemm.eeEnglish
        172·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.de
    264·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • Gamey@feddit.de
      2·
      2 years ago

      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…

  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    14·
    2 years ago

    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