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

    • Schedar@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Definitely this. Was thinking about making a bit myself to do this as the whole direct link thing is such a pain but I don’t have any experience in making bots so I’d be even happier if someone else manages to make one!

      Something that automatically converts https://beehaw.org/c/support to [support](/c/support) so they are useable across instances.___

  • Lvxferre@lemmy.ml
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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.
  • OrangeSlice@lemmy.mlM
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    1 year ago

    I really hope it won’t be needed, but we should probably have an nwordcount bot ready to go, just in case

  • Roi@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Video/image download bot would be super useful.

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  • Treevan 🇦🇺@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Since no one mentioned it,

    Stabbot - the video stabilising bot to fix videos that the uploader didn’t bother with.

    Songfinder bot seems handy to prevent earworms.

    Plus a lot of the other ones mentioned. Just helpful bots with a distinct purpose that come in when asked to save time or educate.

  • tmpod@lemmy.ptM
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    1 year ago

    I’m sure something like AutoMod would eventually become useful for community moderators.

      • CookieJarObserver@feddit.de
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        1 year ago

        Nah there are many useful bots that help people.

        For example unit conversion, reminders, sources, bots that get triggered when you mention a series or book or stuff like that and provide a small Summary of said thing.

        We aren’t talking about spam bots that plaster the place with onlyfans shit or something.

  • fruitywelsh@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    One major bot that is fediverse specific. A community syncing bot. So if two communities from different instances want to, they could have a bot that crossposts everything between each other and delete one deleted between each other. A more advanced feature to have is to have it only do certain tags, so for example [email protected] with a help/question and fedora tags could be auto posted to [email protected], and [email protected] .