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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (17 children)

I'll reply first on more general grounds. In my opinion, bots...

  • should only reply to posts/comments when explicitly requested to, through a standard approach.
  • should be properly tagged as bots, not just their username but also some interface element. And they should never behave in a way that mimics human beings.
  • should have short, succinct output, that doesn't force other users to scroll past a lot of junk.
  • should only have a descriptive output (it gives you info), not prescriptive (it doesn't tell you what to do).

Now, actually answering your question:

  • a bot that links manga, anime and LN references to MyAnimeList, MangaUpdates etc. pages, like u/Roboragi does in Reddit.
  • an unit conversion bot, like @[email protected] said, that also works for cooking units. (Specially when Americans say stuff like "half cup of onions", for me it's the same as "a random amount of onion"). I volunteer myself to help out gathering units for that.
  • a simple Wikipedia link bot, that gives you a short excerpt of the Wikipedia link.
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

r/fanfiction and r/HPfanfiction have a fanfic link summary bot. you do linkffn(STORYID) or linkao3(STORYID) and it posts a summary. was useful.

[โ€“] nopalkoboi 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Omg I really hope the fanfiction bot can be implemented to lemmy! I just joined lemmy today because RIF stopped working and the official Reddit app is so laggy and crashes on me so much while Iโ€™ve been trying to use it this week. Iโ€™m excited about lemmy and really hope that the fanfiction community on here ends up growing more!

[โ€“] nopalkoboi 1 points 1 year ago

I need to learn how to use lemmy properly lol. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™€๏ธ I accidentally blocked when trying to reply oops. Hopefully the unblock worked lol

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