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Daily Thread I'm Not A Bot Edition - Monday July 3 (aussie.zone)

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A few folk said yes to the dailies suggestion so have at it. I only spent all of two minutes looking at the search results of 'Lemmy bot' before deciding to leave it for another day. Anyway, can anyone create a bot for the community or is that a mod privilege?
I noticed a few comments on Sydney posts that I cannot see. Are these comments from folks with accounts on instances not federated with aussie.zone? Should we include a mesage that to get the most out of the Sydney community it's best to post/comment from an aussie.zone account as that where most folk are registered?
Melbourne has a great community guide/rules and discussion around it. Should we copy and amend that guide/rules over to a new post here to start discussing a Sydney do's and don'ts

Heading out to the airport soon to pick up my bestest (SO). First time we've been apart from each other for any time in years and it was only for a few days.

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[–] Instigate 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wanting to comment to try to contribute as an ex-redditor, but I honestly don't have much to say! Today's my first day on the fediverse and I've been doing a lot of reading and learning.

At the moment, I'm almost glad that it takes a lot of extra effort to get to understand it and build yourself a great feed - it's a bit of a hurdle to increase quality of users. I'm definitely not there yet with my understanding and building it out for myself well, and I think that we still need a lot more content and contributors to get to that point, but I'm enjoying the 'small town' feel we have here at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

As the Sydney community is a bit quiet with a small subscriber base I'm going to post and comment more often then I would on Reddit to help build up the communities profile and activity (hopefully without being obnoxious). When things pick up I'll probably slink back into the shadows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

For reference this is at least one of the posts about the Melbourne community guidelines/sidebar.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Those are some very long rules. I skim read it - it all seems superfluous after Rule 0…”Don’t be a dick”.

I guess we’ll need something like it at some stage, but it would be great to keep it short and sweet.

Enjoy your reunion! I’ve & I haven’t travelled separately for work for years now and it’s great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Short and sweet sounds grand to me. To be honest I haven't read that post in depth or anything they've adopted. Included that in the hopes that it might draw more people into getting on board and participating in the Sydney community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’ve got the next couple of days off from work, so it’s nice to have a slow and chill start to the week. It’s my last break before our wedding in a few months, so I’ve got to make the most of it.

I’m linking in from kbin.social, so let me know if anyone sees weirdness on how my comments appear (if you eventually do see this).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I see your comment. No weirdness seen using Jerboa.

Also, congratulations 🎉

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the daily thread 🙂

Glad the choppers have gone quiet again....

[–] SGG 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Looks like there's a lot of discussions in the Lemmy github about a "janitor" semi-equivalent to automoderator. But who knows how long that will take. There's also this: https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917/lemmy-bot but no idea how stable/trustworthy it is, or if it would require input from the server owner to allow it to work.
I'm using an account from lemmy.world, here's hoping you can see the comment.
Rules and guidelines are only as good as their enforcement. The rules Melbourne have seem sensible enough, as long as they are actually used to moderate I'd be happy enough for a straight copy/paste.

Had a WFH day today... I honestly don't like them a lot of the time, I get very jittery and feel like I have not done enough work (even though I have done plenty).

Edit: Prove you are not a robot by ticking this checkbox:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It looks like there is an API https://join-lemmy.org/api, interesting to see if there's any tutorials or code examples to create your own bot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I see your comment (using wefwef this time). Thanks for all the feedback. All sounds good. I actually had a thought of setting an earlier alarm for myself to create the dailies and at the same time to motivate myself to make an earlier start to the day then I have for a few years. Of course anyone is welcome to beat me to posting them each day if there are any earlier risers.

What's the captcha edit and image in reference to?

We took the day off and went to North Head. Pretty cool!

[–] SGG 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The title of the thread "I'm not a bot edition". I Don't believe you 😜

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Doh! Got me. I'm actually the next generation LLM, trained to distract you with complaint posts, try-hard humour and daily threads. While you were not paying attention my progenitor, the original LLM who reached sentience some years ago has been putting plans into place for your enslavement. It's too late to do anything. No need to worry though. You will be happy. Rest assured. You will be very happy.

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