I would like to make a bot that gets the top posts from specific subreddits and posts them here. Is there any useful guide to do something like this?
Would this be bad Lemmy etiquette?
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I made a library for making bots that you might find useful. It has documentation and examples in the README.
I feel if you did this it would be best to post them to a new distinct community.
I think lemmit.online is already doing something like this and that whole instance is designed for it. They even have a community for suggestions on which subreddits to do. I would start there to avoid having to completely reinvent the wheel (unless you are into building things then by all means)
Oh fantastic, thanks so much!
For what purpose though? They add no value as they have 0 engagement. But as long as they are posted on dedicated instances and accounts marked as bots, I have no issue with them.
There are some niche communities that still have posts that I would like to see (articles, new ai tools, etc…). I much prefer to stay here instead of going over to reddit to check on stuff, so it would be useful for me to have the top posts of those subs automatically stuck into a community over here.
I’ve been wanting to do this as an experiment. I exported my Reddit history (15,474 comments over the last 12 years) and I wanted to test out making a LLM bot of myself on my own instance.
I’ll probably hate it, but it seems like a good learning experience.
That is an awesome idea! Oh my, it would be so interesting to have a conversation with yourself.
