A bot replying with “correct” post URLs would be great. But I don’t know if it’s possible. There are some user scripts doing this for each user’s browser. But, perhaps a middle ground could be covered if the links for the most popular instances are created.
I see that there is a bot that posts Pipes links for shared Youtube URLs. That would be nice to have on programming.dev instance as well (and similarly nitter for twitter).
Content management bots would be great. A feature I desperately need right now is actually automatic cross-posting. I host my community on multiple instances and post actively to others. Linking posts together to have better reach and having multiple backups in case of one instance going down is incredibly important to Lemmy’s continued growth and survival. Lemmy itself doesn’t support a lot of redundancy features, so it’d be nice to automate the process a bit. A start would be a script that logs into an account and cross-posts a specified post to multiple communities in other instances. It’d also be nice to have it append the original instance at the end, so that people can follow for discussion.
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As a mod of bunch of communities, I need a bot that would notify me of new posts and reports via Matrix.
There is one I’m using, but the author is reworking it and it’ll apparently only be for discord (which doesn’t work for me).
This is definitely an interesting idea. I would also find this useful. Someone may beat me to it, but I’ll add this one to the todo list.
Please, heh. Someone from the lemmy-bots instance said they’ll be adding support for matrix webhooks so bots can use it.
For here, some kind of code evaluation bot, to help answer help questions. I’ve made a Matrix and Discord version of this which isn’t much more than
subprocess.run(['podman', 'run', lang.container]), but I think a better version would include a link to an evaluation site like ato.pxeger.run so that people can use the bot response as a jumping off point to experiment more.No bots. Ever.
Do you truly not find any of them useful? There are a great many awful bots out there that range from mildly annoying to down right disruptive, but some of them can be quite useful. Looking at examples from Reddit, I think the wiki summarizer bot, RemindMe bot and video archiving bots were all pretty useful for example. I’ve also found bots on card game communities that reply to something like ![NameOfCard] with a description of the card, which is absolutely helpful.
I don’t no. I’m entirely against any automation.
