Screenshot of what's happening for the uninitiated. Bot keeps posting YouTube links and then replying to itself because it detects a YouTube link.
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You've fallen for one of the classic blunders! Never let a bot reply to itself!
Reminds me of back when it was possible for two out-of-office message services to get stuck in an endless loop
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.
If anyone uses sync, there's a setting to hide the PipedLinkBot posts
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.
I'll just demonstrate...
Edit - of course the one time I want the bot to show up, it doesn't work.
It didn't respond with a thousand replies, must be under maintenance to fix that so it doesn't respond to itself anymore
I blocked that bot long ago. I don't want to see a website being advertised on every video link on every Lemmy instance.
I think its great to avoid YT.
Yes I automatically open YT links with invideous.
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.
I love the Ruby/Sapphire version of that annoying trumpet
https://inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=G4nIvgHypg4
Invidious so the bot doesn't go crazy
