As we see more and more bots on Lemmy World every day, it’s about time we publish a set of rules for bots and bot-owners.
So here goes:
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Bots shall not be used for any kind of advertising.
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The bot accounts must be clearly marked as a bot. Both in the bio and by marking the account as a bot.
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The owner of the bot and contact details must be mentioned in the bot’s bio.
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Bots are only allowed to post in communities they have the explicit permission from the community’s owners to do so.
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Bots from other instances that post in Lemmy World communities must follow the same rules.
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Bots shall not just be posting Reddit content.
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Bots shall not be “spammy”, as in multiple posts per minute.
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Breaking any of these rules will result in a ban for the Bot and, if required, its owner.
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Commands must use the bots mention as prefix, and not a text prefix like !help
These rules will be updated when needed.
Save video is uselesss as videos can be downloaded directly.
Save video hosted the video on a platform other than redidt so you could then share that link. If I download he video I then have to send the file to people, not the link.
Them you can just directly share the video link on lemmy
And when the server goes down as it does constantly…
At the moment you can’t upload videos directly to Lemmy. All videos you see on here are linked from somewhere else.
Good. Let’s hope it stays that way. The server costs for hosting videos are massive, and would quickly outscale Lemmy’s donations.
Oh yes, I agree. I would like to see thumbnails on video submissions from imgur and the like, though, and more consistent in-page popouts.