Thanks, I didn’t know Peertube had a built in tool for mirroring a channel. I will look into that.
I just found out about lemmit.online from the other answers and I agree with you on having be a different instance is good practice.
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hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 days ago
PeerTube has that built in. You can set up a channel and have it import or mirror a Youtube channel. For Lemmy there’s several bits and scripts. As other people said that’s what lemmit.online is about.
Be a bit careful when rolling this out. Several people don’t like it. They’ve left Reddit for a reason and this is drowning them in bot activity. And usually these posts are low engagement, Reddit users can’t see the comments, so you’re not getting a lot of answers. I think it’s good practice how we here have separated that to dedicated instances, so users can just have genuine conversations everywhere else.
Twoafros@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 days ago
Alright. And for your information, the Peertube function is a bit broken. I think the Peertube developers did their best. But Youtube has a lot of datacenter IP address ranges blocked. And they do rate-limiting and force people to sign in after downloading a few videos. Plus yt-dlp (which it relies upon and Youtube are playing this cat and mouse game… So it’s disabled on most instances because it doesn’t really work. I was able to make it work on my instance, but I had to jump through several hoops. Configure a SOCKS proxy and tunnel it over my home, residential internet connection. And I think I transferred my login cookies as well.
Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 days ago
Yea, bot posts screw up our post:comment ratio, they make a ton of posts but they don’t get comments, and seeing a bunch of posts with 0 comments causes users to leave Lemmy
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 days ago
Yes. And I’ve seen people do really weird (and worse) stuff, like re-post questions. And if you’re unaware of that, you’re bound to take 10mins out of your day to answer the product or Linux or life question and later find out you were ripped off. At least that’s how it feels to me if people fabricate that kind of activity. And it kills the mood to write comments for a while.