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
    8·
    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
      16·
      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
    1·
    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.

  • 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.