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?

  • MolvanianDentist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      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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    1 year ago

    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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    1 year ago

    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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    1 year ago

    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.