EDIT: the extension now supports Lemmy comments!

https://lemmy.world/post/9401361

Youtube comments are historically terrible so this Reddit comment for YouTube is a great extension to never have to read YouTube comments. I no longer use Reddit though and would love to have a similar extension using Lemmy comments that also work on piped/invidious and maybe be compatible with any website/link

Do you think this could be crowdsourced as a collaboration by the Lemmy community to make this an AGPL extension? If so how do we get started? (Idk how to code)

(The extension in the picture is an extension that adds Reddit Comments under a youtube video https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-comments-for-youtube/ )

Source code: https://github.com/Xyl-AU/Reddit-Comments-for-YouTube

  • rah@feddit.uk
    424·
    1 year ago

    If so how do we get started? (Idk how to code)

    Learn to code. Otherwise, there’s no “we”.

    Nobody is going to do programming work for you for nothing. Plenty of ideas men thanks, don’t need any more.

    • Nix@merv.newsOPEnglish
      213·
      1 year ago

      Its not working on a project “for me” or “for nothing” its for the lemmy/fediverse community as a whole. Like every other lemmy open source extension, most clients, lemmy itself.

      • rah@feddit.uk
        51·
        1 year ago

        its for the lemmy/fediverse community as a whole

        Then wait for the community to implement the thing you want.

        Or learn to code.

  • HamSwagwich@showeq.com
    6·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t looked in awhile… But has the API for Lemmy been implemented? If so, it should be pretty easy to port over.

      • HamSwagwich@showeq.com
        2·
        1 year ago

        I just had a peek at the source code of the plug-in. It’s basically already setup to add another service like Lemmy, as it supports Nebula and one other service with the same codebase.

        I think it would almost trivial to add Lemmy. I may look into doing it if i get bored and have the time, but not sure when that would be. Have you contacted the git maintainer for that plug-in and asked him to add Lemmy support? He could do it much quicker since he’s already familiar with the code and from what I saw, it would be about 30-60 minutes worth of work for someone familiar with the codebase already. I may be grossly underestimating that since I did not do an in depth dive, but from what I can tell it would be pretty simple.

        What I would do is:

        Add a new variable that lets you configure what Lemmy instance you want to point to
        Copy the objects from reddit to a new lemmy object.
        Adjust the URL and /r/ to /c/

        Might have to fiddle with the User view code a bit

        But other than that, everything else code wise should be a drop in replacement from what I can tell.

  • Piecemakers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    1 year ago

    How is this any different from using your favorite Lemmy client and simply watching whatever Piped, etc. vid within it?

    Also, I second the “learn to code” sentiment. Otherwise, what exactly are you bringing to the table? Cash?

    • Nix@merv.newsOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      When you’re on YouTube/piped it automatically embeds the comments under the description. I think it’s obvious why that’s better than manually searching all of lemmy for each thread that has the same link

  • starbreaker@kbin.social
    21·
    1 year ago

    Just block JS by default using uBlock origin. Install mpv with youtube-dl and feed YouTube URLs into mpv. No need for a separate extension to avoid the morons commenting on YouTube.

    • Nix@merv.newsOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The extension is to embed reddit/lemmy comments on a youtube video

      • starbreaker@kbin.social
        11·
        1 year ago

        And what good does that accomplish? The person posting the video won’t see them unless they use that extension as well, and why would they bother?

        • Nix@merv.newsOPEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Why would I want to see lemmy comments on a video instead of youtube comments? Because the quality of lemmy comments are way better?

            • Nix@merv.newsOPEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              I dont think you’re understanding what the post is about. Try looking at the extension. Its to replace youtube comments with Lemmy comments

              • starbreaker@kbin.social
                12·
                1 year ago

                I understand that the post is about. I just don’t see the point of this project. I’m content to not see any comments at all on a YouTube video. Whether they come from YouTube itself or Lemmy is irrelevant to me. You don’t seem capable of understanding or accepting that, which isn’t my problem.

  • morphballganon@lemmy.world
    21·
    1 year ago

    You want to look at Lemmy but block all comments? Do I have that right?

    If you were trying to block ads, just use one of the apps that does so, like Connect.

    • Nix@merv.newsOPEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      Updated the OP to include a description of the extension. I want to be able to browse Lemmy threads/comments on any YouTube video (ideally any website). The extension in the picture is called Reddit comments for youtube and it shows you the comments of threads that have the same link of the youtube video you’re on