this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2024
24 points (90.0% liked)

[Closed] Moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

1584 readers
1 users here now

This community has moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

Original sidebar infoTo discuss how to grow and manage communities / magazines on Lemmy, Mbin, Piefed and Sublinks

Resources:

Megathreads:

Rules:

  1. Be respectful
  2. No bigotry

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Question sparked after seeing the post about unmarked llm bots.

Would you like to see service/utility bots here?

all 21 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 8 points 11 months ago

Upvoted the legit question.

The only bot I would like would be an improved version of https://schedule.lemmings.world/

Currently, you can scheduled pinned post on a defined frequency, but you cannot unpin them automatically (e.g. after 24 hours)

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Some bots that I do (or would) consider useful:

  • CommunityLinkFixer
  • A configurable AutoMod for communities
  • Decronym
  • RemindMe
  • MetricConverter
  • Stabbot
  • MoreJpegAuto
[–] rglullis@communick.news 4 points 11 months ago
  • 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
[–] Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

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.

[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand, having separate bots allow people to filter features they want or not

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Good point yes :)