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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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

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[–] GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 31 points 11 months ago

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.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 11 months ago

Just read the links

[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What are you so mad about?

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's ugly. It posts a spam comment under every post.

[–] Cinner@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Just block it and done.

[–] vasco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

It doesn't change a thing for you.

[–] java@beehaw.org 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] vasco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

I really like the idea and even more the intention behind it.

[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Mr_Blott@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I can see how that would be perPlexing

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh, that must be why my new accounts keep getting shadow-banned.

[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or unless your account is "connected" I got one of those messages. I have account that's been there for over 10/yrs. So I created a 2nd account under a different email address and after 2/yrs they wanted to ban it for something that didn't make sense.

Maybe connected by device. But my first account they thought I was trying to evade ban so they suspended that account for 7 days. Those mods need to fix their auto mods or something. But eventually Lemmy will be the big thing.

Long live the fediverse.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I made sure they're unconnected by IP address, cookies, email, etc.

You underestimated the average person's tolerance to be dominated. They'll stay on Reddit and Twitter and Facebook.

[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yea I had two different email addresses, just not ip addresses and cookies. Oh well. On to Lemmy and/or Kbin.

[–] Cinner@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you're saying reddit temp banned you, you made a new account, and then you made a new account and that was instantly banned... yeah, I had 7 accounts all logged into an app, one was banned, therefore all 7 were banned, and when I removed them and cleared app cache and disconnected from wifi (so I had a mobile IP) that account was instantly banned as well. So I guess even 3rd party apps send (sent lol) some unique identifier to reddit.

[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Idk, the fact they considered accounts "connected" is stupid. The mods are just abusing their power and censoring people.

[–] Cinner@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about reddit admin automated account processes. Not subreddit bots/mods.

[–] FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Oops ok.

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's fine but can it be hidden from Lemmy please? There's no good reason to see it under every post.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yes, just block the bot and you'll never see it again

[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why don't you block it automatically for everyone?

[–] veniasilente@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

As if you were speaking for me.

[–] drunkensailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 #SomeWord thing? 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.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

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.