They are very useful and autolovepon automatically creates discussion threads which I think will help keep the sub alive.
Roboragi linkes the anime mentioned to MAL and other sites which is super neat and useful.
I’ve made a fork of autolovepon for Lemmy already, just waiting on the mods to give me the thumbs up to deploy. Don’t wanna just go over their heads on it
Oh hey, me too! I’ve also been waiting for a response from the mods for about a week now.
I think the mods here are on a (permanent?) vacation. Wanna combine our work and start a new episode discussion community?
As I see it, you have the following options:
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Be patient, the one mod with any activity hasn’t had any comments in 2 days. I know we all want this community up and running like clockwork asap yesterday, but give the guy a break.
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Coordinate with @AnimeBot@lemmy.world who is going to do the posting, updating the schedule, etc, and just do it, begging for forgiveness instead of permission.
I think we have a good group of users posting to this /c, and while it’s early, this is feeling like a viable community.
2 days? The last comment I saw from him was 14 days ago… Looks like federation dropped that comment. Guh! Thanks for the heads up.
It looks like that comment you’re referring to is actually the one I’ve been waiting on, which means I can officially get started whenever. You’re right, though, I should wait to talk with the other bot guy.
Currently I’m in contact with one of the mods, so I hope to have an update by tomorrow. They seem happy to have something like this.
Also, not sure if begging is necessary lol, they seem like ordinary dudes who have lives outside of this (as do I), hopefully this just helps people anticipate discussion threads. If you ever have suggestions, my regular username is @virtualras@lemmy.world, feel free to message me with any suggestions.
For the casual user: You might see a series of 30+ threads pop up sometime Saturday and Sunday (7/8 and 7/9 for East Coast USA). Still TBD, but I’m hopeful to get it up before we hit the following week so we can start to get this baby rolling. Gotta rip that band-aid off sometime.
If none of the mods have had made any comments recently, probably worth reaching out to an admin to see if you can get mod ownership temporarily.
We technically don’t even need moderator rights to send bot posts to a community, though common sense dictates that you should generally try to get permission before spamming someone else’s community with auto-posts. It seems ass-backward to me to try and take over someone’s community without permission in order to feel better about sending bot posts without permission.
In any case, I don’t believe that the Lemmy developers are overtly interested in managing community ownership drama when they can just tell people to go create a new community where they’re in charge. It’s a bad precedent and bad optics for them to get involved – I would feel wrong for even broaching the question to them. Apparently they totally do requests, but most of the requests that get granted seem to require the moderators to be absent for 1yr+. There’s also the minor wrinkle that communities can only be moderated by users on the same instance and new registrations for lemmy.ml are currently closed indefinitely.
Since AutoLovepon is open source, it should be trivial to port that one to Lemmy
Would be nice to have Roboragi here
I haven’t done any extensive research into this or anything, but if the bots are open source, the work to port them to Lemmy from Reddit should be minimal. Someone developed a way to access Lemmy using the Reddit API a while ago, so I can’t imagine too much work would be needed to get it going.
