Hi, I’m learing python and I was thinking about createing Lemmy bot.

    • Schedar@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Definitely this. Was thinking about making a bit myself to do this as the whole direct link thing is such a pain but I don’t have any experience in making bots so I’d be even happier if someone else manages to make one!

      Something that automatically converts https://beehaw.org/c/support to [support](/c/support) so they are useable across instances.___

  • Treevan 🇦🇺@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Since no one mentioned it,

    Stabbot - the video stabilising bot to fix videos that the uploader didn’t bother with.

    Songfinder bot seems handy to prevent earworms.

    Plus a lot of the other ones mentioned. Just helpful bots with a distinct purpose that come in when asked to save time or educate.

  • Sean Tilley@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    This isn’t necessarily a bot in and of itself…but, could function as one. It would be really cool if bots could reshare content from other fediverse sources into a group automatically, but preserve attribution to the original posters.

    Would be really handy for, say, automatically sharing PeerTube videos to a community dedicated to watching them.

  • Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Lemmygrad has a bot which detects youtube, twitter and reddit links in your post and offers links to open source front ends like invidious, nitter and libreddit. It’d be nice if we had one of those.

  • Tmpod@lemmy.ptM
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    1 year ago

    I’m sure something like AutoMod would eventually become useful for community moderators.

    • RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      And I would like to see a federation-wide policy that all bots must be clearly identified as bots (an attribute on their account). And features in the site code to block all bots as a user preference.

      • CookieJarObserver@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Nah there are many useful bots that help people.

        For example unit conversion, reminders, sources, bots that get triggered when you mention a series or book or stuff like that and provide a small Summary of said thing.

        We aren’t talking about spam bots that plaster the place with onlyfans shit or something.

        • Evkob@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          I didn’t mean to imply that all bots are spam, or that they aren’t useful in any way. I wouldn’t be opposed to community-specific bots, like one that provides a series summary on a community for TV shows.

          I just really don’t want to have like a third of comments being bots. The community numbers are still fairly low, and Lemmy users are (for the time being, anyways) generally tech-inclined so bots could rapidly be a much too large part of posts/comments. I’m here because I want to interact with people, not bots.

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I’ll reply first on more general grounds. In my opinion, bots…

    • should only reply to posts/comments when explicitly requested to, through a standard approach.
    • should be properly tagged as bots, not just their username but also some interface element. And they should never behave in a way that mimics human beings.
    • should have short, succinct output, that doesn’t force other users to scroll past a lot of junk.
    • should only have a descriptive output (it gives you info), not prescriptive (it doesn’t tell you what to do).

    Now, actually answering your question:

    • a bot that links manga, anime and LN references to MyAnimeList, MangaUpdates etc. pages, like u/Roboragi does in Reddit.
    • an unit conversion bot, like @[email protected] said, that also works for cooking units. (Specially when Americans say stuff like “half cup of onions”, for me it’s the same as “a random amount of onion”). I volunteer myself to help out gathering units for that.
    • a simple Wikipedia link bot, that gives you a short excerpt of the Wikipedia link.
  • fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    One major bot that is fediverse specific. A community syncing bot. So if two communities from different instances want to, they could have a bot that crossposts everything between each other and delete one deleted between each other. A more advanced feature to have is to have it only do certain tags, so for example [email protected] with a help/question and fedora tags could be auto posted to [email protected], and [email protected] .