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The worst part of youtube is the terrible comments so i use this extension to see reddit comments under youtube videos. It would be great to have a similar extension for Lemmy comments to appear on youtube videos.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-comments-for-youtube/

the extension would be even more interesting if it could work on any link on the web, allowing you to fetch lemmy threads with that url

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Never knew that was a thing for reddit and now I really want it for lemmy!

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Hey, that sounds like a solid idea to learn the ropes of the API. I'd still need to learn about plugins though...

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It would be an appreciable challenge because the plugin would have to know what server and account to post the comments to. That much said, I think it is a fine idea. On one side of the coin, I'd rather get people over to PeerTube and build that platform up rather than help Google get more un-needed revenue.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The plugin could work across any website so YouTube and PeerTube would both be supported

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So it would support Google's proprietary API and ActivityPub? That would work.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It doesnt need to support the google api.

Gab (the nazi fediverse platform) had an extension like this a couple years ago https://github.com/gab-ai-inc/gab-dissenter-extension/

https://www.engadget.com/2019-03-01-gab-dissenter-comments-extension.html

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You could give it multiple instances/accounts and it would search between the instances for the one with the most comments.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah! Thats how the reddit extension works across different subreddits that have used the links.

You could also list the comments by upvotes across instances. With the instance name by the username. So you can see all comments from all instances and communities

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

the extension would be even more interesting if it could work on any link on the web:

A disqus replacement? Now that would be interesting indeed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes please ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป

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