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Introducing the Lemmy Tagginator (github.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 @[email protected] 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

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This shouldn’t really make any difference. In lemmy it would appear as a normal reply notification once per thread.

Still an annoyance, i post on reddit and lemmy for years, to keep having to delete that reply for years to come could accumulate to a significant amount of time, and small segments of time wasted tend to add up

I’ll see if I can expand the bot, but I don’t want each reply to end up like a wall of text.

You could add the "about this bot" the line above it ( making a two lines message) but this could be cryptic and therefore off putting for new lemmy users (creating a bad impression of the platform).

That would defeat the purpose, as the discovery from mastodon would happen days/weeks/months after that thread was active.

When you reply the person you reply to still get notifications , lemmy "active" sort bumps posts when they get new comments (see docs) and anyway most of the time i assume people just read comments and don't respond, and the idea is to make lemmy more discoverable so after that they could visit lemmy and participate more actively.