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?
Volcel vanguard was pretty funny ngl
The Isr*el one and make it post this image
"A rapist, a snitch, a plagiarist, and a racist walk into a bar. The bartender asks “How’s the new book coming Mr. Orwell?”
A bot that responds with “Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.” when somebody says liberty
Liberty seems like a pretty common word. I don’t want to create a situation where there is so much bot activity that there are more bot replies than human replies, so I am not sure if this would be a good idea. Maybe I should make another post to discuss that. However, less common words, or something like the !archive command I implemented would probably be fine.
It’s a good quote, but I agree with the caution here. We tend not to get many Reddit liberal types trying to counter communist narratives with a teary-eyed, Braveheart-inspired, ‘but liberty!’ / ‘freedom!’.
But what if we could summon Stalin like Parenti? You know, for when it just feels right. What about a ‘RealLiberty’ bot?
You could always have the bot listen for mentions of itself only instead of being triggered by certain text in comments or posts. There’s a different API endpoint just for person mentions, so it should be possible. Parentibot does it.
It’s possible, but my bot responds to multiple things at the same time, so there’s no good way to choose which reply to send if it’s just mentioned. Instead, I’m implementing commands like !archive https://example.com. That way, it won’t reply unless someone explicitly wants it to.
Here are the archive links you requested:
that one anarchist copypasta
the one where a keyword would trigger a message, like the stalin song or the magic xi bus thingy.
Yes, that is what my bot does, but I was thinking more specifically, like which replies people would like to see.
So far, I’ve implemented !archive https://example.com, that should be pretty useful, but I am just testing right now, so it may not be running when you try it, at least for now.
All it takes with my bot is the following config (though I probably will tweak that regex a bit):
[[reply]] regex = '!archive (https?)://([/.\w\d]+)' msg = ''' Here are the archive links you requested: - [archive.vn](https://archive.vn/${1}://${2}) - [archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/${1}://${2}) '''Here are the archive links you requested:
Perfect
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.
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
Here are links to Invidious, which is a YouTube frontend that protects your privacy:
