GitHub - daniel-lxs/BotIt: A bot that scrapes posts from an specific subreddit and posts it on a kbin magazine.
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A bot that scrapes posts from an specific subreddit and posts it on a kbin magazine. - GitHub - daniel-lxs/BotIt: A bot that scrapes posts from an specific subreddit and posts it on a kbin magazine.

Hi, I’m the operator of this bot that has been crossposting from Reddit directly into lemmy/kbin communities every hour.

You can check this account post history, it has been posting every hour to various communities and I wanted to know if you guys have noticed. So far only a couple of users have mentioned in the comments that this account is a bot, other than that, on engaging posts, users seems to participate in discussions organically.

Why am I making this post? I wanted to know your opinions, should this bot continue running? Should I adjust the criteria that’s used for the posts? Should I increase or decrease frequency of posting? I want to know what you think about crossposting in smaller communities that need help with content.

So far the bot takes posts no older than 3 hours and in some cases where the sub is smaller 5 hours.

The intent to which I made this bot is to help moderators of communities that are moving here from reddit or for any user that wants to mirror content here that he previously saw on reddit to spend less time there.

So, what do you guys think? Check the bio for the GitHub link, as the bot is open source. Thank you for participating!

  • NotBadAndYou@kbin.social
    8·
    1 year ago

    Maybe have the bot pick one of the similar magazines like world, news, and worldnews for each crosspost instead of posting to all of them? Since there are so many new communities a lot of us have subscribed to all of them for now while we try to decide which fits our needs best. By spamming into every magazine/community that is similar to the Reddit sub you’re pulling from, you’re creating a lot of duplicates in our feeds. Otherwise I welcome seeing more content here, and applaud your efforts!

    • Dented-Mantle-4133@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think the bot can be configured to avoid this, but the way they have it configured definitely creates a lot of duplicates. It’s in the community map section of the config file.

  • thepiggz@programming.dev
    3·
    1 year ago

    Personally, I’m not thrilled with the idea of bots posting in general. It seems like that’s down that path towards a place I don’t want to go.

  • livus@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    Oh hi, yes I noticed your bot. It posts content into a magazine I’m active in, that doesn’t have that many submitters yet. (kbin.social/m/worldnews)

    I was a bit disappointed to be honest. It feels like you’re imposing the Reddit news subs’ preferences and priorities onto kbin. As one of only a handful that posts in that mag your bot really helps shape it, so basically reddit is dictating content.

    I had been trying every day to contribute fresh relevant and global content to encourage subscribers, so it’s a bit demoralizing since your bot is probably going to perpetuate the Reddit bias toward Ukraine war news at the expense of other content. It has also already posted an article using tabloid terms like “vile plot” to describe government legislation and I can’t suggest it avoid those because it’s a bot and can’t hear me.

    This might be a “me” problem not a you problem, but I wanted to give feedback.

    • BotIt@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      You are right, but in this case I can hear you, you took the time to write this comment and I understand, I can decide what topics get posted as well, and with your feedback I can make the bot not post any war news. This is why I wanted feedback from the community to see what new features can I add so the content is actually useful.

      • livus@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thanks, I really appreciate the engagement. That would be really cool if the bot coyld be diverse in its topics.

        Full disclosure, I’m not actually the mag’s mod - I reached out to them but haven’t heard back yet.

  • Shortcake@kbin.social
    2·
    1 year ago

    In the case of a few subs, such as manga or anime, there is use in a bot like this to post chapters/episodes for discussion. Currently users are doing this so that others have a place for conversing about each chapter/episode. It sounds like there is a consensus in these groups to try and figure out how to get a site with API (like mangadex) and a bot to do this posting