GitHub - db0/lemmy-tagginator: A script that attempts to tag all posts from specific communities
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I have just deployed a script and a mastodon bot which attempt to hashtag lemmy posts so that they are better discoverable in microblogging services.

Please check the README for the why and the how.

If you have a microblogging account, please consider following the bot account which will help its hashtags federate to your instance’s public timeline.

Many thanks to @jgrim@discuss.online for hosting the bot.

PS: If you have a mastodon account, you can reply to your posts on mastodon (just search for their url) and add hashtags to your replies. This will achieve a quick and dirty version of what this bot is doing

  • kopper [they/them]English
    3•8 months ago

    interesting idea

    one thing I like from kbin is that because it does this natively I can follow a kbin magazine from an empty unused account and create a misskey antenna pointed at the hashtags in question (with replies hidden) which allows me to subscribe to kbin communities without getting spammed with boosts of replies, so I may end up making use of this depending on how widely it gets adopted

    that said I’m still not convinced that increasing lemmys reach outside the threadiverse makes sense just yet while its federation is so buggy, case in point: https://brain.d.on-t.work/notes/9md8phwlkzlj0xe9 (edits on posts are repeatedly re-boosted, which likely wasn’t noticed as mastodon only ever allows one boost from an actor)

    (or the fact that link posts don’t federate to misskey and forks at all, but that’s due to a bug in misskey)

    • db0OPEnglish
      4•8 months ago

      (edits on posts are repeatedly re-boosted, which likely wasn’t noticed as mastodon only ever allows one boost from an actor)

      Ye, lemmy integration with the microblogging fediverse is pretty janky atm.

      • kopper [they/them]English
        2•8 months ago

        i can see why you may not want this but have you potentially considered rehosting/attaching any images from image posts in the bot’s replies? as lemmy doesn’t federate those properly just yet (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4035/commits/ecd8e3b11b5292bad73d48c2fbf11db00bc432c2 will fix it for posts originating in lemmy AFAIK) it’d make the bot quite a lot more useful and things like memes do tend to get boosted a lot more widely than links, though i can definitely see why it may feel a bit like freebooting (so, it could perhaps be a per-community option for non-OC-heavy communities?)