@PostWatchBot - notify new comments of a post - lemy
lemy.lol
I think the title says it all. Welcome to the world, @PostWatchBot@lemy.lol [https://lemy.lol/u/PostWatchBot] baby! ### Usage - Subscribe to a post: just mention the bot in the comments. It will start to send you notification when a new comment is created. - Unsubscribe from a post: mention the bot and add stop keyword to the comment. (I plan to do this with reply as well) - Unsubscribe completely: Send PM to the bot and add stop to your message. It will unsubscribe you from all subscriptions. Made with @CannotSleep420@hexbear.net [https://hexbear.net/u/CannotSleep420]’s lemmy-bot [https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917/lemmy-bot] project 🙏 Tomorrow I will publish the code publicly after adding README and self-hosting guide.

I think the title says it all. Welcome to the world, @PostWatchBot@lemy.lol baby!

Usage

  • Subscribe to a post: just mention the bot in the comments. It will start to send you notification when a new comment is created.
  • Unsubscribe from a post: mention the bot and add stop keyword to the comment. (I plan to do this with reply as well)
  • Unsubscribe completely: Send PM to the bot and add stop to your message. It will unsubscribe you from all subscriptions.

Made with @CannotSleep420@hexbear.net’s lemmy-bot project 🙏 Tomorrow I will publish the code publicly after adding README and self-hosting guide.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    8 months ago

    How does it subscribe when lemmy doesn’t have subscribing or notification apps? Does it just pill the server? (As a server owner the amount of traffic there worries me, and that could cost me depending on implementation)

    If it’s polling, how do you know to stop polling? Will it just poll a post forever?

    • iso@lemy.lolOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Its polling every 30th second only on my instance. So don’t worry, it will not make any difference for you ✌️

      • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        8 months ago

        in theory as you operate both the server and the bot you could modify lemmy to tell the bot when a new comment hits a thread instead of polling, which would be more efficient (but definitely harder to do!)

        also does it handle the case where nobody from your instance is following a community? to make sure you get all the replies reliably the bot would need to subscribe to each community it’s watching a post from

        that said, great work. I may end up using it if I don’t end up forgetting about its existence :p

        • iso@lemy.lolOPEnglish
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          8 months ago

          I’m using a library named lemmy-bot. To achieve what you say, I need to modify both library and lemmy server. As you can guess, I can’t afford time for these 🙂

          I think it’s not using much resources anyways. 2 requests per minute is nothing compared to hundreds of ActivityPub requests per second.

          I didn’t tested non-followed community, but the bot works with mention event instead of comment. But still not sure, I’ll test this one 🙏

          • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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            8 months ago

            I didn’t tested non-followed community, but the bot works with mention event instead of comment. But still not sure, I’ll test this one 🙏

            oh, I meant for the actual post watching part, summoning via mention should work without any subscription

  • rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
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    8 months ago

    So every user that decides to get notified will add a comment to the thread?

    If 100 people trigger it, 100 comments will be the exact same response?

    Also, if people end up “deleting the comment to keep the thread clean”, will they get purged as well?

    • iso@lemy.lolOPEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Valid criticism. I’ll try to clear it tomorrow 👍 Any suggestions are appreciated.

    • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Thanks! Its super convenient! Is it just me or does clicking the link it provides opens the thread but not the comment itself? Would be convenient since im guessing replies to comments dont cause a notification?

      • iso@lemy.lolOPEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Yeah make sense. I’ve updated it to work that way 👍

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Given the backlash against everyone who tries to make a reddit-lemmy mirroring bot then hopefully you’ve saved yourself a headache in the future!

    • Nix@merv.newsEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Is it possible to subscribe to a comment thread as well? So if anyone replies to your comment I get a notification?