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.
Lemmy let’s you disable bots. Amazing feature.
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?
Hmm, I can’t seem to find it in the options. Typically you can go to the website, change the setting, and it generally flows through to what you see in apps. It can vary by setting, though.
In Boost, its under “account preferences” where you can also alter your nio. Not sure if its the same in Voyager
I like the useful bots that summarise stuff and you can decide to read the whole article. The “funny” bots can go die in a pit.
Some bots that I do (or would) consider useful:
- CommunityLinkFixer
- A configurable AutoMod for communities
- Decronym
- RemindMe
- MetricConverter
- Stabbot
- MoreJpegAuto
- 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
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.
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
the only bot I’ve ever found useful was on discord, and it’s a bot that lets people coordinate their schedules. other than that, every bot I ever encountered on Reddit was just annoying
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.
