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

  • Barns@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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” 😉

    • kavin@feddit.rocksOPEnglish
      1·
      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 :)