Are there any service bots you'd like to see on lemmy? If yes what kind?
Question sparked after seeing the post about unmarked llm bots.
Would you like to see service/utility bots here?
Upvoted the legit question.
The only bot I would like would be an improved version of https://schedule.lemmings.world/
Currently, you can scheduled pinned post on a defined frequency, but you cannot unpin them automatically (e.g. after 24 hours)
Some bots that I do (or would) consider useful:
A moderation bot that pings (DMs) moderators if something goes wrong. For example on spam, or if a comment gets massively downvoted. Maybe it could also detect brigading and other malicious behaviour. Or do semtiment analysis and point out hateful comments. Or scan images or enforce specific community policies.
I spoke with the instance owner of lemmings.world in matrix before and he invited me to try out his webhook system for Lemmy, which is extremely useful. I'll try making something with that. Maybe an automatic system where the bot moderates every community that it gets added as a mod to.
Bot is open source https://github.com/Demigodrick/community_bot
If the summarising bot worked better and made short summaries, it would be great. There are too many posts that are just a link with a generic title, so a brief summary would be ideal.
I don't think there are any other useful bots though.
There are two separate takes in this thread, those that like bots and those that find the posts spammy.
What about having one bot that provides multiple functions? All the "utilities" can be included in one comment, reducing spam.
Assuming the bot is open sourced, people can contribute modules to it. After that, an instance can choose to run the bot with modules that it thinks are helpful and users can give feedback on what they like / don't like.
On the other hand, having separate bots allow people to filter features they want or not
Good point yes :)
the only bot I've ever found useful was on discord, and it's a bot that lets people coordinate their schedules. other than that, every bot I ever encountered on Reddit was just annoying
Lemmy let's you disable bots. Amazing feature.
I like the useful bots that summarise stuff and you can decide to read the whole article. The "funny" bots can go die in a pit.