I never bother clicking the piped bot links, and I’m not a fan of the tldr bot either as I think there’s activity on a post but it turns out it’s just the bot.

What are everyone’s thoughts on bots like piped bot and tdlr bot

I don’t mind them. If I did I’d block them.

I think they live on a beautiful botfarm somewhere. They come here every day and give us the same alternative links to youtube videos and alike over and over again. Their life is simple. They don’t engage much. They find purpose in the small tasks we give them. And I think they are happy.

I don’t click piped links myself, but some people find them useful.

As for tldr bot, it’s useful insofar it gets an idea across for weather I want to read the article, but leaves out a lot of information, often vital to the story, and leaves in fluff.

They aren’t perfect, but useful for some.

Like them both. But theyre both flawed.

Piped doesn’t seems to always work for me. Tldr bot doesñsn’t always provide vital information

The piped bot links don’t work me and I don’t need them anyway.

On android, I changed the default permissions from the regular YouTube app to “ask every time”. Other installed apps that support YouTube links will then show up in the prompt when opening YouTube links.

Piped bot is annoying. I never bother using it’s links. I have ReVanced for that. I didn’t know if the jobs it makes are actually useful to anyone.

It’s a mixed bag. Piped bot is just generally “meh” for me. With all the ad blocking I have turned on, I don’t really see ads on Youtube and would rather give what little support my views provide to the creators on the platform. I also subscribe to Nebula to try and support them directly.

Many of the bots, especially the really noisy re-post type bots I tend to block. Sure, I want to see content on Lemmy, but a bot reposting everything from a site has a problem with just creating a lot of noise without any sort of filtering for interesting content. But, since I can block them selectively, I’d rather people had the room to create and I’ll just remove the ones I don’t like from my feed. Everyone wins.

The Piped bot pisses me off because it doesn’t seem to check if the triggering comment already includes the exact link it’s about to post. I used to preemptively include Piped links with any YouTube ones but since it would trigger the bot anyway I just stopped bothering.

Aside from the clutter it adds, until I added the bot itself to my blocklist (instead of just relying on “Show bots” being unchecked in settings) it would also cause reply notifications that couldn’t be cleared in the default Lemmy web UI.

TLDR bot often takes items out of context and come off just plain wrong. Or it’s a long article skips important things entirely. To get the correct story just read the original.

I bloody love them both. Yeah, tldr isn’t perfect, but it’s usually “good enough”. And the piped bot makes life so much easier for anyone wanting to share something cool without having to jump through that extra hoop.

True QOL bots, both of them

Both of em pretty good

I appreciate them, but never use them. I already auto-redirect youtube links to an alt frontend, and already don’t read articles.

My only issue is the reply shouldn’t be as long as it is. .

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It shouldn’t be this big

I find them a bit annoying, particularly TLDR bot, as it sometimes butchers articles by leaving out key information, so much so that it nearly borders on misinformation (eg, in an article about a SE Asian country voting on gay marriage, it cut out all portions about the vote, suggesting that it was legalized when it hadn’t been voted on yet or passed.)

Unfortunately, it gets highly upvoted, so many people skip the article and think that this country now has legalized gay marriage when it actually has not.