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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 wether 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.
PipedBot: no issues with it.
TldrBot: I get frustrated with the number of times I see a story where only the bot has commented. "There's someone here... No there's not".
It's not the bots fault really, but I wonder if it should wait until somebody else has commented so zero comment stories stay at zero.
Comment count should really just show "0 (1) comments"
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.
This was beautiful to read. Thank you!
Piped bot is annoying. I never bother using it's links. I have ReVanced for that. I don't know if the links it makes are actually useful to anyone.
Pipedbot: hate it. Piped has never once worked for me and the bot's formatted comments are massive. If you prefer an alternative YouTube frontend, it should be on you to open it using the canonical link you're given IMO. I blocked this bot months ago.
TLDR bot: I didn't like it back when it didn't use spoiler tags since its comments were enormous. Now I don't mind as long as it makes them collapsible by default.
Other bots: it depends on what they do and how obtrusively they do it
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.
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.
Also will never present things like date of publication or author. Both of which can change the context of the whole thing.
Both of em pretty good
Certainly better than any reddit bots.
If I wanted to read reddit, I'd go to reddit.
I blocked the piped bot. Don't care about the rest.
Unpaywall bot would be more useful than tldr. Probably.
I appreciate them, but never use them. I already auto-redirect youtube links to an alt frontend, and already don't read articles.
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.
I use a redirector extension for YouTube so PipedBot is useless and annoying for me. I'd rather someone just give me a YouTube URL and let the redirector extension do its work.
TL;DRbot is okay, I guess.
What are everyoneβs thoughts on bots like piped bot and tdlr bot
I don't mind them. If I did I'd block them.
Great to have the tl;dr bot here.
I never see them, I think we got to opt out of them when we signed up?
There's a lemmy profile setting whether to show bots, you probably have that turned off.
I'm on kbin and can't find it. What are the bots like these days? Is it just these two bots or are there repost bots trying to copy reddit content?
I have bots on and it's mostly ever these two.
There are still reddit repost bots, but they are all on reddit repost instances. As I have those like two or three instances blocked, I don't see any of them.
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.
I don't like the Piped bot at all.
What should be posted on the internet should be the canonical source of some content, not a proxy for it. If users prefer a proxy, they should configure their clients to redirect to the proxy. Piped instances come and go and the entire project is at the mercy of Google tolerating it/not taking action against it, so it could be gone tomorrow.
I use piped myself. I have client-side configurations which simply redirects all Youtube links to my piped instance. No need for any bots here.