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submitted 1 year ago by XioR112@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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

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[-] PriorProject@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

There's no bots I'm really missing hard right now, but it's worth recalling that bots are such a popular approach on Reddit specifically because the community has no way to improve reddit directly. If you want to add a feature to reddit, the ONLY way you can do it is to try to parse the text in a post/comment and the have the bot post it's own output as a comment or whatever.

With Lemmy, the code is open source and you can improve it directly. So before writing a bot to hammer the apis of an instance reading every post/comment made to a community, it's worth asking oneself if Lemmy could be improved to natively do the thing without needing a bot. Like for remind-me, what if Lemmy had a native remind-me button that direct-messaged you with a link to a post after some configurable delay. Easier to use, more efficient, no bot needed.

Now, this might be more work than writing a bot. And a bot can be a useful way to prototype some feature. It also means learning rust and JavaScript rather than python, and it means cooperating with Lemmy devs who might have concerns about performance at-scale, maintainability, or user-experience. These concerns will likely make the result better though. It's fine to do stuff via bots, but consider the possibility that directly contributing to improve Lemmy would be a better result that isn't possible in the Reddit ecosystem.

[-] alex@agora.nop.chat 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally, I've been thinking about bots, but I plan to run them on my own instance or their own dedicated instance. That way, they don't add any load at all with their interactions, and only their comments are synced to other instances. That also makes it easy for whole instances or communities to kick them if they don't want them there.

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