Submitted 11 months ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to fediverse@lemmy.world
https://github.com/db0/lemmy-tagginator
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.
The best thing about PeerTube is that tags on a video are automatically converted into Mastodon-appropriate tags (spaces removed, basically) that show up in search there, it’s a really cool feature that definitely helps a lot with discoverability. So this definitely has potential.
Unfortunately on the Mastodon side, you’re still seeing a link to the Lemmy post rather than being able to read it in your feed, which confuses a lot of people in my experience as they don’t realise they can reply in Mastodon since it looks like a whole separate thing.
So yeah, great work and I think it probably will help some communities, but nobody get your hopes up too much as the way things federate in that direction is just inherently bad at the moment.
p.s. followed the bot on sunny.garden and mastodon.gamedev.place to get things moving 👍
Ye I am aware. I did link to that bug report in the readme as well :) But you gave me an idea to clarify that replies will appears as comments in the bot reply
More for other mods to be aware that it’s not going to work quite as smoothly as they might hope. But yeah adding that to the bot replies makes a lot of sense, good thinking!
I’m wondering, is it all or nothing in terms of which posts get tagged? For example I mod !knitting@lemmy.world and most of our posts are someone showing off a project, which is easy to comment on from Mastodon (I’ve been boosting and replying to stuff manually to draw attention there as you described in your OP). But then we also have things like Work-In-Progress Wednesday, where multiple people are posting images of their WIPs to one thread. This doesn’t work so well with Mastodon because images don’t federate (in either direction) with the exception of the first image attached to the main post, so there’s no point sharing it there.
Not to give you more work but maybe it’s an idea to have an opt-out keyword that can be included in a post, and the bot will know to ignore that one?
Again, really is great work, you’re always contributing useful stuff to the Fediverse and I for one really appreciate it so please take these rambling thoughts in the constructive manner they’re intended, they are definitely not complaints 😄
This is why hashtags have been suggested to the lemmy devs multiple times. Just let lemmy users tag their posts.
I know. I am in those discussions and I linked to them on the readme, but I don’t feel the lemmy devs agree.
Sorry. Any brusqueness in my post was directed at the lemmy devs, not you. It seems like such an obvious feature. I think some people on the fediverse get into the mindset of recreating corporate silos one-to-one instead of building a cohesive fediverse that has way more functionality than any one network.
Cool, thanks!
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: 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)
(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.
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 (github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4035 will fix it 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?)
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Cool stuff. I’m not one for microblogging but this could be very beneficial for growing niche communities here by taking advantage of Mastodon’s larger userbase. Thank you for continuing to build tools for the fediverse, @db0 🫡