The bot could link to the thumbnail using image syntax
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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.Also society if @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks didn’t reply with a duplicate link
Sync has an entire option to hide the bot
Sync is great. It’s also incredibly smart that you can easily link to settings in comments.
“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.
Freetube is my go-to. Barely had any issues with it.