@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.

  • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 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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      9 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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        9 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