cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/370342

I’m kicking around a few feature requests.

One of them I’ve already created in github as it seems appropriate to mainline Lemmy, but a couple of others I think are more appropriate to third party development. Since I’m more a product management / sysadmin type and not much of a coder, I’m putting these in the aether in case they drum up some interest in those considering features for bots or other tooling.

First is YouTube aggregation - it doesn’t have to be limited to YT. I’m interested in the ability to automatically collect notifications from a list of channels (click that bell icon, baby) and generate a community post to link new videos.

Second is RSS aggregation. If a blog or magazine or news site has a feed, and if that feed should feature an entry matching keywords defined by a moderation team, generate a post to the community linking to that content.

If these capabilities exist already for Lemmy, even in a hackish way, please do let me know. Otherwise, these are things I am wishing for :)

  • DancingPickle@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’m not sure I understand the logic in making a distinction between moderation tools and bots or integrations since the latter could be called subsets of the former.

    By definition, software packages are comprised of integrated capabilities and some of those capabilities are tools to assist in moderation activities. Bots may not be integrations (although automated functions that behave identically to a bot could certainly be), but to use an example, the ubiquitous automod(s) is/are bots which is/are also moderation tools.

    I hope we can agree that moderation activities extend beyond banning trolls and miscreants, and go on to include content propagation. Software integrations and bots can easily qualify as moderation tools.

    With that explanation, maybe it would help me if you could explain how one could distinguish bots and integrations from moderation tools. Maybe we’re not discussing the same thing.

    • jgrimMAEnglish
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      2 years ago

      I think some bots help with moderation. But in this community I wouldn’t describe an RSS feed autoposting bot as moderation; that is more like curation. A banana is a fruit but not all fruit is a banana.

      I don’t personally plan to contribute to these things. I’m more focused on reducing bad actors in the fediverse.