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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
Repeatedly getting tagged by this bot sounds like it is a PITA.
Having a command you can send with a private message so it won’t tag you could be useful , something like :
dontTagMe: @[email protected] .
It’s also pretty confusing if you encounter a post the first time, having it write something like :
Could be more understandable.
Regarding you saying on the read me you are not a rust developer A tutorial on youtube implies you can learn the basics in aboutt 3h, since your contribution gets reviewed by experienced developer that should be enough and you can learn more things on the fly (Assuming there are more things you want to contribute to on lemmy).
having a command where the moderators of a community can tweak the frequency of posting (or maybe even posting just the top post for day/week/month etc) could also be helpful
Unfortunately I just don’t have the mental bandwidth to pick up Rust atm. My hands are beyond full.
This shouldn’t really make any difference. In lemmy it would appear as a normal reply notification once per thread.
I’ll see if I can expand the bot, but I don’t want each reply to end up like a wall of text.
That would defeat the purpose, as the discovery from mastodon would happen days/weeks/months after that thread was active.
Still an annoyance, i post on reddit and lemmy for years, to keep having to delete that reply for years to come could accumulate to a significant amount of time, and small segments of time wasted tend to add up
You could add the “about this bot” the line above it ( making a two lines message) but this could be cryptic and therefore off putting for new lemmy users (creating a bad impression of the platform).
When you reply the person you reply to still get notifications , lemmy “active” sort bumps posts when they get new comments (see docs) and anyway most of the time i assume people just read comments and don’t respond, and the idea is to make lemmy more discoverable so after that they could visit lemmy and participate more actively.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
tutorial
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Thanks for the tutorial link, looks like a pretty good tutorial. I will watch them.