I think the title says it all. Basically, when a new comment appears on your targeted post, it sends you a PM about it.
Usage
- Subscribe to a post: just mention the bot in the comments or send the link to the bot via PM.
- Unsubscribe from a post: send PM to the bot with
stoptext and link of the post likestop https://lemmy.ml/post/1234 - Unsubscribe completely: Send PM to the bot and add
stoptext to your message. It will unsubscribe you from all subscriptions.
Note: the bot sends only one notification per post. It waits for the previous notification to be marked as read for new comments.
Made with @CannotSleep420@hexbear.net’s lemmy-bot project 🙏 Tomorrow I will publish the code publicly after adding README and self-hosting guide.
Its polling every 30th second only on my instance. So don’t worry, it will not make any difference for you ✌️
in theory as you operate both the server and the bot you could modify lemmy to tell the bot when a new comment hits a thread instead of polling, which would be more efficient (but definitely harder to do!)
also does it handle the case where nobody from your instance is following a community? to make sure you get all the replies reliably the bot would need to subscribe to each community it’s watching a post from
that said, great work. I may end up using it if I don’t end up forgetting about its existence :p
I’m using a library named lemmy-bot. To achieve what you say, I need to modify both library and lemmy server. As you can guess, I can’t afford time for these 🙂
I think it’s not using much resources anyways. 2 requests per minute is nothing compared to hundreds of ActivityPub requests per second.
I didn’t tested non-followed community, but the bot works with mention event instead of comment. But still not sure, I’ll test this one 🙏
oh, I meant for the actual post watching part, summoning via mention should work without any subscription
I think to get mentioned comment, it needs to get parent post too. As I said, I need to test it. I can only assume right now.