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Sync has an entire option to hide the bot
Oh neat!
Thank you for that. Using Voyager here myself on iOS. Hey if I hide the bot how will I know when to stop being annoyed about it :p
It'd be great if there were some handing of YT video ids in Lemmy, which would be independent of the provider domain. So like in Lemmy you could link to a YT video by the id (not URL), and then based on the user settings, that would open up in Piped or Youtube based on preference. I guess this could be done client side, and rewrite youtube links, but then for people who prefer Youtube and get a piped link, you'd need to know to rewrite that link. Anyway, that's the society I'd like to live in.
you could link to a YT video by the id (not URL)
Asking individual users to make that kind of change is bad UX. Better if you got the client-side change based on use preference, even though users just post the normal YouTube link.
"Society if Piped would actually play videos," for me :( I've had some luck with Invidious, but I haven't been able to get videos playing on Piped for some months now.
The bot could link to the thumbnail using image syntax !()[] and add the title, channel, view count & duration; Piped even supports DeArrow for clickbait reduction. However, this would either cost privacy by auto-loading content from Google or add even more load on the "default" piped.video instance. Many people would also hate it even more for that.