You might have seen my lemmy tagginator which I announced here and I explain its purpose in its README.
As I explained there, the purpose is to help introduce discovery and more engagement on lemmy from the microblogging space.
Some things about it.
You can add extra tags
Normally the bot will always tag as #Piracy, but you can add more tags from those supported. The current supported tags are #Torrents, #Arrs, and #Usenet
Feel free to suggest other optional tags
You can skip the Tagginator
Simply put #SkipTagginator in your body to prevent the bot from posting. Use this if you don’t think that post should be boosted in discoverability.
You can avoid seeing the bot
I see a lot of people downvoting the bot. Mates, just block the bot account. It’s that easy.
#SkipTagginator
What in the wide world of fuck is the Lemmy Tagginator, and more importantly, why?
Edit: is this something we need here? I’m not sure it is.
What in the wide world of fuck is the Lemmy Tagginator, and more importantly, why?
is this something we need here?
From what I understand, the bot serves no immediate purpose or function for Lemmy users, but it helps strengthen ties to other parts of the fediverse (like Mastodon).
I’m personally indifferent to the bot.
Just read the links
What are you so mad about?
It’s ugly. It posts a spam comment under every post.
It doesn’t change a thing for you.
Why are there supported tags? Why can’t #AnyTag be parsed by the bot? I don’t expect many people to make the effort to check which tags are allowed.
Why should a Lemmy user care about this? It appears there is no integration with Lemmy beyond parsing. For instance, you can’t quickly filter by tags from the sidebar.
I suppose it’s still useful since the #piracy tag is added automatically. However, the overall idea feels rather raw.
The reason is that the tags appear posted from the bot and I don’t want people to start trolling and make me start monitoring.
Yes the integration is not optimal. The best would be that lemmy supports it natively but we do the best we can
I really like the idea and even more the intention behind it.
As long as the bot isn’t sensitive and glitchy like Reddi bots. The term “Plex” flags your account for piracy or some stupid shit.
I can see how that would be perPlexing
Oh, that must be why my new accounts keep getting shadow-banned.
Possibly stupid question, but how does one manually tag things on lemmy when using desktop web ui from browser (as opposed to mobile apps that specifically have a tagging feature). Is it as simple as add some
#SomeWordthing? Asking bc I thought that when using markdown for comments (which I do), the#at the beginning indicates a heading level, not a tag. So… guess I’m just saying I have no idea how tags work in lemmy (don’t know how to add them, don’t know how to search by them, etc).It might be worth mentioning - or at least linking to - how one can do so manually on lemmy in the readme.md file for dummies like myself.
Tagging is not natively supported in lemmy. This is why I made this bot. As the tagging happens by simply text scanning, just adding the tag somewhere in your body like I did in the OP should suffice.
That’s fine but can it be hidden from Lemmy please? There’s no good reason to see it under every post.
Yes, just block the bot and you’ll never see it again
Why don’t you block it automatically for everyone?
As if you were speaking for me.
