Submitted 1 week ago by BlindFrog@lemmy.world to [deleted]
If there isn’t yet, what’re the challenges to overcome in making one?
Not that I can code, just hoping for at least a layman’s understanding.
I think its partly because the Federation process takes time (which can throw off any more precise notifications between instances) but much more significantly because many of the most active Lemmy users really hate bots.
Most bots are annoying but the remindme bot seems useful.
[Media Bias Fact Checker bot has entered the chat full of hope]
I’ve used it for years on reddit. It really is useful!
Yes, but there are several utility bots that are actually pretty useful.
Video download, Remind me, acronym bot. What lemmy clients could do - collapse their messages by default and highlight the bot name.
Auto-collapse bots is a good setting. Each bot’s function is in their name anyway
I like the random haiku ones
!remindme make a remind me not
I think that’s a functionality that would better be integrated into the client’s. Idk if there are any out there already that can do it though. As someone who didn’t use the bot on reddit I felt it was kind of annoying on reddit to always have two or more of the top comments be completely unrelated to the subject. It felt like spam
Iirc there is one, hosted on Mastodon. But because of federation, you pretty much can call it here.
I’ve only seen post bots, not comment bots.
I would just put reminders in my calendar app otherwise.
squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Yes. There is one on Mastodon that you can use on Lemmy thanks to federation.
Let’s see if it still works
@remindme@mstdn.social 1 hour
dis_honestfamiliar@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Can you explain this to me more. It seems mastodon account can be used to post on Lemmy, but is the opposite possible? Can I use Lemmy account on mastodon?
solrize@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Noooooi