I’m looking into making a bot for [email protected] to implement a vote to tag system so people can vote to add tags to it for purposes like indicating what genres it falls into. (With maybe keeping the bot general so other communities could use it)

Afaik there’s no current tag system so I was thinking of just storing it a basic database until there is. If it takes too long for them to implement one, then maybe I’ll add a web interface for it.

My only experience with creating a bot is discord and the discord.js library. I was wondering if there was someone who could help me make it. I can learn any language for it, but I have an amount of experience in js, lua, java, c# (a long time ago), and c++ (last I remember was an attempt at multi threading that kinda fell flat).

I saw Lemmy Guardian over at [email protected] and that’s about the only example I could find (I just started looking).

Edit: I’ve gotten home and done more looking.

I found a large thread about implementing automoderator in Lemmy (with the suggested name of Janitor), as well as a discussion on tags. The addition of an automoderator would be nice, but I do not expect my slightly niche bot to conflict with that. Some of the topics brought up in the tags discussion on the other hand, might directly conflict with my proposed bot. It seems to me that the consensus is that unmoderated tags are not going to happen, and that the tags will only be controllable by the poster (and probably moderator).

On the other hand, I saw a lot more bots listed that I could further look into, as well as a typescript api library, rather than just the python one I found with the earlier bot