1 yr. ago • 93%

What bots would you like to see?

I'm thinking of looking at the Lemmy api and that's best done when you have some actual problem to solve!

So, is there any bot that you'd like to see?

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Some recollections from Reddit:

A bot that links the top posts of all time for a community. Gives a good sense of the community's greatest hits when referenced in discussions.

A bot that converts imperial to metric units or vice versa. Some people do find this one annoying, but as a metric user, this one helps me understand miles and pounds, etc.

A bot that summarises or pulls the first paragraph of a Wikipedia article.

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- The metric <-> imperial seems like something I'd have fun doing!
  
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- In a similar vein, a bot that links to a timezone converter.
  
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One that inserts a comment randomly about jumper cables or the lochness monster

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- Maybe the remindme bot
  
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  Was thinking about that but it's often considered annoying, so I thought I'd ask first.
  
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  I would rather have Lemmy get the ability to follow a comment or post. That's mostly what it had been used for.
  
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- It’s funny you mention that. My friend’s teenage son had made a bot for Reddit years ago when it was a new thing while he was in a summer program for computer science. The bot would post theater times for latest movie releases in local subreddits and it was considered a helpful bot by most. I got used to relying on it quite a bit - until one time I took the family to what I thought was a Lego movie, but we ended up seeing Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! My father had came with two of my 2nd cousins and he was disturbed to say the least. When we got home, my dad was so upset that he beat me unmercifully with a set of jumper cables to teach me a lesson - you shouldn’t expose the family to such nonsense he said. Needless to say I will never rely on online bots for movie times with my family again.
  
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  undefined> When we got home, my dad was so upset that he beat me unmercifully with a set of jumper cables to teach me a lesson - you shouldn’t expose the family to such nonsense he said. Needless to say I will never rely on online bots for movie times with my family again.
  
  LMAO you bastard!
  
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  Didn't see this one coming. Good job sir
  
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- It’s funny you mention that. My friend’s teenage son had made a bot for Reddit years ago when it was a new thing while he was in a summer program for computer science. The bot would post theater times for latest movie releases in local subreddits and it was considered a helpful bot by most. I got used to relying on it quite a bit - until one time I took the family to what I thought was a Lego movie, but we ended up seeing Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! My father had came with two of my 2nd cousins and he was disturbed to say the least. When we got home, my dad was so upset that he beat me unmercifully with a set of jumper cables to teach me a lesson - you shouldn’t expose the family to such nonsense he said. Needless to say I will never rely on online bots for movie times with my family again.
  
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AutoModbot, autotldr, remindme, top posts And lemmy URL fixer (transform regular lemmy link to federated one e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/memes to !memes@lemmy.world).

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- Those are good ideas!
  
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- Lemmy URL fixer is done! Example: https://lemmings.world/c/lemmings_world_instance
  
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  Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !lemmings_world_instance@lemmings.world
  
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  Well done! Much needed. How it summon itself?
  
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  Fyi this is calling out links made with the official autocomplete. I've blocked it but does that stop it from replying to me or just stop me from seeing the replies?
  
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- @autotldr@lemmings.world is live now!
  
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  Well done! It was very much needed.
  
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  Is it possible to make it comment on a specific post? Mention in does nothing
  
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My dumbass non-coder self would kill to have a bot that autoposts a thread every 12am daily. It's hard to stay up that late just to make the daily thread, lmao.

Or maybe there is one already?

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- Hi there! I made an app that allows you to schedule posts: https://schedule.lemmings.world
  
  Not a bot, but still should help a bit. You can also pin/unpin a post using the scheduler.
  
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- Not sure if there's one, but it doesn't seem hard at all.
  
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None. None of them.

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Maybe a "good bod", "bad bot" detection bot? I imagine a lot of people won't actually report a problem on GitHub all time (some bots don't even leave their source code in their comment), so this way you get a way to reports issues+get an example, or to see when it works fine.

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RemindMe bot was always my favourite.

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u/WanderingDwarfMiner, rock and stone!

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The Lotrmemes collection of bots

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- We've only just escaped them!
  
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AMPutator, RSS bot, timezone bot, a bot to provide a Reddit archive URL when someone posts a Reddit URL so we don’t have to send them traffic.

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Flag waiver bot :c

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- What's that supposed to do?
  
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  It's from the vexillology communities; it takes the image of the flag posted and creates a page where it can be viewed waving
  
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