I have created a reply bot that I posted earlier. With it, I can create any bot that replies to users’ comments with a set message. It can also get information from the comment and include it in the reply if needed.

The reply bot I made is pretty advanced in terms of what it can detect because it uses PCRE2. For example, I can detect only things that start with something, or only things that have specific characters in specific locations and don’t have other characters before or after.

Does anyone know any bots on Reddit that they may want brought to Lemmygrad (other than parenti bot, that’s already been brought over), or have any other ideas for bots that could be added?

  • @CriticalResist8A
    3•1 year ago

    In my opinion bots on Lemmygrad should be limited in scope (for now) and provide useful content.

    We are still quite small – to the point everyone knows each other – and there would easily be more bot content than human content if we used them liberally (hah)

    Secondly, as others have said we’re not being assailed by liberals that wander in and so we don’t need bots that preach to the choir. Instead, bots could provide content in a way that’s not possible yet on Lemmy, for example if you know stickers on Discord, it would be possible to summon a picture from the bot by using a command.

    We could also have community-specific bots that provide useful info there, for example links in music or unit conversion in swoletariat.

    • Arsen6331 ☭OP
      2•1 year ago

      Yes, I agree, having the bot reply to random words found in comments seems like it would not be a great idea for a community as small as Lemmygrad.

      I am currently implementing useful features and commands. The latest feature I’ve implemented automatically detects youtube links and replies with links to two invidious instances (yewtu.be and another random instance I picked out of the list on their site in case yewtu.be is down.). It works for shortened and normal YouTube links, and preserves the parameters (like links that start at a specific time in a video).

      Edit: Here’s a YouTube link to showcase it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLYe3Cv_pUI&t=12s