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submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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!

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago

Avoiding shorts is a feature IMO

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

tears in my eyes This ones for you, @[email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago

I'm ~~a human pretending to be a bit as a bit~~ open-source

You can literally only make this shit up