Comment on @PostWatchBot - notify new comments on a post
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
How does it subscribe when lemmy doesn’t have subscribing or notification apps? Does it just pill the server? (As a server owner the amount of traffic there worries me, and that could cost me depending on implementation)
If it’s polling, how do you know to stop polling? Will it just poll a post forever?
iso@lemy.lol 1 year ago
Its polling every 30th second only on my instance. So don’t worry, it will not make any difference for you ✌️
ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year 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.lol 1 year 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 🙏
ShittyKopper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
oh, I meant for the actual post watching part, summoning via mention should work without any subscription