asudox
@asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
- Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation 10 hours ago:
Well, my initial idea was to build this only for lemmy.
However, the API was not good enough for my use case. Polling new posts and comments was my main issue with it. So mostly scaling issues. You could miss some posts and comments and the amount of API requests will get bigger with the amount of communities the bot will moderate. There are also some problems with rate limiting.
They can be solved by directly querying the database, but who’s going to give you database access? So you’d have to selfhost lemmy yourself just for the bot. And I’d imagine the database would grow pretty fast with the number of communities. I explicitly do not want to store any posts or comments. And even then, maintaining the required SQL query for Lemmy posts is the last thing I want to do.
Another solution would be using Lemmy’s new webhook system, but I don’t know how reliable it will be.
So I stopped halfway through and started a new project with new goals:
- Make a new federated platform
With federation, the problems above would be solved. This also allows it to be hosted without having to find an instance for it or even self host it yourself.
- Stronger integration with platforms via a modular federation system
If I made it depend on Lemmy, a strong integration with other platforms wouldn’t be possible. Piefed has features that Lemmy doesn’t, for example. People can maintain a set of platform specific activitypu bstructs and enable the bot to federate with that platform.
Not really answering your question, but I’d like to make a clarification: The bots will only be able to operate within the community (or I guess group) boundaries. They cannot manage any instances. Furthermore, my main intention is for them to be used primarily as moderation bots, but they can also be used as general purpose bots within the community.
- Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation 1 day ago:
The platform should provide some of these out of the box, in my opinion.
I am trying to build a new activitypub powered platform just for user scriptable moderation bots, but I am stuck on the modular federation design.
This is my third attempt now.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 6 days ago:
They recommend people other american centralized social media as an alternative to Bluesky in response to this, yet again. When are they going to learn?
- Comment on Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services? 1 week ago:
let us learn quantum mechanics
- Comment on Being a dude sucks 1 week ago:
Just throw them in front of the danger. They’re your human shield.
- Comment on Why isn't there a Megumin sub-"lemmy"... 😣 1 week ago:
“Sublemmies” are called “communities” here.
- Comment on Watch first, then wipe: Some China’s restrooms put toilet paper behind paywall 1 week ago:
Surveillance cameras in the bathroom? Not surprised
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 week ago:
Plugins update independently from the app.
- Comment on Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this 2 weeks ago:
It’s only useful with the ModeratorView type. I haven’t heard of anyone using it for anything other than that.
So I think this endpoint should be just for the modview type and authorization should therefore be required.
Or the rate limit should be more fine tunable. There are like 4 configurable rate limits that encompass all endpoints.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 2 weeks ago:
What about servo?
- Comment on No Game No Life and No New Season 2 weeks ago:
what did you think would come out of someone as delusional as reiji?
- Comment on Between Codeberg, Forgejo, Gitea, etc., which do you prefer and why? 2 weeks ago:
Codeberg is an instance, not software. It runs on Forgejo.
Forgejo is a hard fork of Gitea.
So my answer is Forgejo.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
Oh shit. The god of technology just came and educated us about what MAC stands for. We should be grateful.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 4 weeks ago:
When did they understand anything? Fuck MS
- Comment on [Important] Catbox Needs Your Help 5 weeks ago:
Apparently one of the devs got a confirmation from NLnet for a grant, so GNU Taler will probably become another payment option in Liberapay.
- Comment on Implementing Portable User Identities with DIDs 5 weeks ago:
Well, looks like the lemmy devs (like any reasonable person) will not accept LLM generated shit. So good luck with that.
- Comment on Implementing Portable User Identities with DIDs 5 weeks ago:
DIDs are cool and all but I would trash your proposal because that is clearly llm bullshit. Put effort into it, seriously.
Oh and also, for big changes like these, you need to make a new RFC: github.com/LemmyNet/rfcs
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 5 weeks ago:
Pies?
- Comment on Fediverse Report – #131 1 month ago:
The dev told me this in Mastodon:
@asudox @crowdbucks
I am learning the Taler Protocol right now — so that I can understand how Taler can be added to CrowdBucks.
So, yes, we are looking at making CrowdBucks work with Taler.
- Comment on Why do I keep getting my feed filled with channels I already banned? 1 month ago:
What do you mean by channels? Video channels (for example in Peertube) or Lemmy communities?
- Comment on Digg's new app is basic, but a great start 1 month ago:
Yep. We have Fediseer for such instances though.
- Comment on Digg's new app is basic, but a great start 1 month ago:
Another Reddit with AI builtin.
- Comment on Are there any bots that we can use to mirror posts from subreddits? 1 month ago:
It’s easy to make one. But why would you want that?
As time goes by and more and more people join the Fediverse, I’m sure some niche comms will start taking off. I don’t like bots mirroring content from somewhere else, even as a help. In fact, I will immediately unsubscribe from any comm that starts doing that. And I’m sure many people also would.
- Comment on Got a six-pack for me and the boys 1 month ago:
beans
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 1 month ago:
Spez will fuck with Reddit’s userbase, yet 90% of redditors will still keep sucking his dick over and over again.
“LeMmY iS tOo HaRd!!”
- Comment on Why do some instances not load communities properly? 1 month ago:
That is how federation works. You will not get all content automatically, only if you wish to.
When you subscribe to a new community (as in your instance hasn’t “seen” it yet), it will fetch the last 20 posts.
If you wish to see older comments and posts, you must fetch them manually. You can see how that can be done here: join-lemmy.org/…/federation_getting_started.html
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
AI bullshit
- Comment on [Discussion] What is the most gloriously gory anime you've seen? 1 month ago:
Elfen Lied
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 1 month ago:
The workaround is using uBO
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 month ago:
I am using LibreWolf. It’s probably the best fork out there.