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If I wanted to experiment with some utility bots... (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago by troyunrau to c/main

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How do I go about it without damaging the server, it's reputation in the fediverse, and just generally keeping the admins happy.

Example: In c/printSF I want to write a bot that autodetects books titles, and comes up with links to those books on booknaut or similar (confined to one comment per post). But that bot will need to poll c/printSF periodically, and it'll need to post under its own bot username.

Do I register the username just like I did mine, and specify that it's for a utility bot in a community I moderate?

Can I play in c/test without it flooding the local frontpage?

Are there any general guidelines or criteria, other than obviously no spamming?

Would it be useful if c/moderators or something similar existed so we can exchange ideas and best practices and such without polluting main's SNR?

Cheers

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[–] Shadow 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yep in the settings for the account, you can specify that it's a bot account. There's no way to say "don't show c/test on the frontpage" yet unfortunately.

As long as it's reasonably well behaved, I don't think we'd have any concerns. We'll have to build up / iterate on rules as we see what users end up building.

I'm fine with it posting to c/test

[–] troyunrau 4 points 2 years ago

So, I guess it has begun eh -- going to start with an attempt to write something useful for myself - mod tools maybe!. Apparently I'm a python lemmy frontend app developer now ;)

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

There’s no way to say “don’t show c/test on the frontpage” yet

Can we define c/test so that it's automatically blocked by anyone not subscribed? Like, is there a way for a new user to join the system and receive a default profile of subscribed/blocked subs, and include c/test in that default blocked list?

[–] Shadow 2 points 2 years ago

There's no real support for anything like this yet :(