Hi all! I’m not usually a fan of bots, but as per usual @[email protected] has come up with something that could be genuinely useful and I wanted to get your thoughts on whether we as a community should use it.

Basically the Lemmy Tagginator is a Mastodon bot that would respond to all posts in our community, adding hashtags (in our case, probably just the one tag #Knitting). More info on Github / in the announcement thread.

Why would this be a good thing?

Mastodon is so much bigger than Lemmy, and content from other Fediverse services genuinely does benefit from the discoverability there in my experience. Basically, more people chatting about your knitting.

Why might this be a bad thing?

You’d get a bot reply on your posts, that could be annoying for some people.

Also the dev has already added an opt-out feature to tell the bot to ignore a given post, but it’s one more thing to remember how to do.

What do you reckon?

I’m not going to go opting you into something that the majority doesn’t want, so this is your chance to yea or nay. Of course, we could always give it a whirl and stop if we don’t like it or aren’t seeing any benefit.

Community feedback, go!

  • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Never been a big fan of tags. I feel they don’t help discoverability, since I can just search for keywords and just add noise.

    A post in a community called @knitting will probably have to do with, you guessed it, knitting. So why would I need a bot adding that tag in a comment?
    Similarly, even if the particular project is seasonal or concerning some event, chances are the relevant terms will make it into the title or body of the post.

    • thegiddystitcher@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      There might be a misunderstanding here, so just to clarify. The way things get found on Mastodon is via tags. But there’s currently no way to add tags on Lemmy itself, so when a post from here federates over there it’s tagless and doesn’t show up in search. Someone on Mastodon looking at the #Knitting feed isn’t going to see it, even though it’s posted by a group called “knitting”.

      It’s less about just tagging for the sake of it and more about getting things slightly closer to a format that works with the rest of the Fediverse.

      Hopefully that makes sense! 😄