I have just deployed a script and a mastodon bot which attempt to hashtag lemmy posts so that they are better discoverable in microblogging services.

Please check the README for the why and the how.

If you have a microblogging account, please consider following the bot account which will help its hashtags federate to your instance’s public timeline.

Many thanks to @[email protected] for hosting the bot.

PS: If you have a mastodon account, you can reply to your posts on mastodon (just search for their url) and add hashtags to your replies. This will achieve a quick and dirty version of what this bot is doing

  • db0OP
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    1 year ago

    Ye, the plan is to keep improving this bot with more fine-tuned mechanisms. Some of the things you suggested are already something I was planning

    • Allow excluding posts when a specific keyword is specified in the body
    • Allow adding extra optional tags when specific keywords are specified in the body

    Is Mastodon ever starts supporting QT, I will also switch to QT the posts instead of replying to them.

    Feel free to open feature requests in github about it

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Nice! Great minds and all that. Definitely going to be keeping an eye on how it develops :)

      • db0OP
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        41 year ago

        Now added both optional tags and post skipping