Question sparked after seeing the post about unmarked llm bots.
Would you like to see service/utility bots here?
No thanks, those were annoying and spammy on reddit and I think they’re generally a nuisance.
Hey that’s really interesting and I don’t know how to access that. I access lemmy 99.9% through the voyager client, do you know if I can access that option through the client or do I have to log in on a browser?
- Bridging bots to interact with Reddit
- Bridging bots to interact with Facebook Groups
- Match threader bots for Football, Basketball, and American Football
- Bots that follow tags on Mastodon and boots them to specific communities
If the summarising bot worked better and made short summaries, it would be great. There are too many posts that are just a link with a generic title, so a brief summary would be ideal.
I don’t think there are any other useful bots though.
There are two separate takes in this thread, those that like bots and those that find the posts spammy.
What about having one bot that provides multiple functions? All the “utilities” can be included in one comment, reducing spam.
Assuming the bot is open sourced, people can contribute modules to it. After that, an instance can choose to run the bot with modules that it thinks are helpful and users can give feedback on what they like / don’t like.
On the other hand, having separate bots allow people to filter features they want or not
A moderation bot that pings (DMs) moderators if something goes wrong. For example on spam, or if a comment gets massively downvoted. Maybe it could also detect brigading and other malicious behaviour. Or do semtiment analysis and point out hateful comments. Or scan images or enforce specific community policies.
Bot is open source https://github.com/Demigodrick/community_bot
It is, I just asked the creator how to use it on other instances, as the ReadMe states
Note - this is the Lemmy.zip version. For a version for other Instances to run please use (Lemmy Mod Bot) ##link to go here##
RUNNING THIS VERSION WILL NOT WORK ON YOUR INSTANCE WITHOUT CHANGES.
I spoke with the instance owner of lemmings.world in matrix before and he invited me to try out his webhook system for Lemmy, which is extremely useful. I’ll try making something with that. Maybe an automatic system where the bot moderates every community that it gets added as a mod to.
Awesome. Once it becomes useful, make sure to make it open source and link it somewhere in one of the Lemmy or Fediverse meta communities.
Yeah. Though I always open source my projects, no need for it to be useful for me to open source it.
If you’re interested, here’s the webhook system: https://github.com/RikudouSage/LemmyWebhook
