Technology
This is the official technology community of Lemmy.ml for all news related to creation and use of technology, and to facilitate civil, meaningful discussion around it.
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Rules:
1: All Lemmy rules apply
2: Do not post low effort posts
3: NEVER post naziped*gore stuff
4: Always post article URLs or their archived version URLs as sources, NOT screenshots. Help the blind users.
5: personal rants of Big Tech CEOs like Elon Musk are unwelcome (does not include posts about their companies affecting wide range of people)
6: no advertisement posts unless verified as legitimate and non-exploitative/non-consumerist
7: crypto related posts, unless essential, are disallowed
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Currently, it scans all posts that are federated with my Lemmy instance (
feddit.rocks), however, there are very few communities that it is scanning currently as there are very few users who have subscribed to communities on my instance.If more people register on my Lemmy instance and subscribe to more communities, it will scan those communities as well.
I hope more users register on my instance so it can be listed on https://join-lemmy.org/instances too :) I currently lack the 5 active users requirement for that, unfortunately.
~~Alternatively, I could maybe add a way for people to get the bot to subscribe to a community, so people from other instances can add communities to be scanned. ๐ค~~ You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format
[!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld)and it will try joining it :)Got it, yes, I think having the bot subscribe to communities is a good way to solve this, and how I've seen it done. Basically users can message the bot with "subscribe ", the bot periodically checks its DMs, subscribes to the Communities and starts monitoring/processing them.
You can add a small footnote to each message, telling them about your instance, so you also get "free publicity" ๐
You can now try sending it a message mentioning communities in the format
[!community@instance.tld](/c/community@instance.tld)and it will try joining it :)I'm going to subscribe to your instance since you seem to have such cool ideas to help the fediverse and care about privacy.