I'm afraid I don't know enough about mastodon to make such a thing possible, but I expect it should be simpler than what I'm doing for reddit, considering both lemmy and mastodon use ActivityPub. If anything, I expected it to work already.
I like it! Maybe also put a sticky per community where people can post their alternatives?
The bot will only be able to find communities based on its name, but hoomans are actually smart enough to know that askLemmy is a better alternative to askReddit. Not to mention that such a post can be updated over time with more suggestions.
👍 Fair enough. I just want to prevent people requesting things, deciding it's not what they wanted, and then have the bot keep it up to date for nothing.
Normally it does, see https://lemmit.online/comment/490 Not sure why it didn't here though :(
Correct. A few days ago I had a lot of requests by 1 user (not you) for a over 20 subreddits, they then didn't even bother to join the resulting communities themselves. Since those do take away time from resources that are getting views, I had decided to disable scraping for a bunch of subs that only had 1 subscriber (the bot itself), including perchance.
If you do intent to follow it, I can re-enable it in the scraper later today.
askreddit is already being archived.
Question is: why would you want to? You'll only get the questions, not the actual answers (see the FAQ in !about@lemmit.online).
Bad bot. Deploying a fix right now for this, apologies for the spam.
The bad news is that I now know why it cannot clone this subreddit - the name is too long. That's going to take some time to fix, I'm afraid.
At any rate, "bestof" subreddits don't work very well at the moment anyway, since they do not yet retrieve the underlying message.
For what it's worth, as the creator of lemmit.online, I totally understand people not wanting to see automated content bots. I, for one, wouldn't want to see them mixed with regular content. That is why I made sure to put it on its own instance, and not allow any users - so there would be minimal harm if a server would decide to defederate.
And yes, NSFW content is allowed on my server :). For more answers, see this FAQ post. For more questions, please post them in that comment thread there.
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