Hi, I’m learing python and I was thinking about createing Lemmy bot.

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    1 year ago

    I’ll reply first on more general grounds. In my opinion, bots…

    • should only reply to posts/comments when explicitly requested to, through a standard approach.
    • should be properly tagged as bots, not just their username but also some interface element. And they should never behave in a way that mimics human beings.
    • should have short, succinct output, that doesn’t force other users to scroll past a lot of junk.
    • should only have a descriptive output (it gives you info), not prescriptive (it doesn’t tell you what to do).

    Now, actually answering your question:

    • a bot that links manga, anime and LN references to MyAnimeList, MangaUpdates etc. pages, like u/Roboragi does in Reddit.
    • an unit conversion bot, like @[email protected] said, that also works for cooking units. (Specially when Americans say stuff like “half cup of onions”, for me it’s the same as “a random amount of onion”). I volunteer myself to help out gathering units for that.
    • a simple Wikipedia link bot, that gives you a short excerpt of the Wikipedia link.