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My aim here was to make it easier to follow posts from #Lemmy communities using Mastodon - without being swamped by context-free replies.
I have some more details on my blog https://lukejohns.online/blog/lemmy_booster_bot_part_2/ and would love to get some #feedback and #requests for other Lemmy bots to add!
Luke Johnson · Lemmy/Mbin/PieFed communities on Mastodon part 2: RSS to the rescueWhen we left off, I’d been trying to create a simple tool to improve Mastodon users’ experience of interacting with communities on Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed (or “LemBinFed” as I like to call them1). This would be a bot that would only boost top-level posts from a community, to save Mastodon users from having to sift through out-of-context reply posts to find them.
The plan was initially make this bot using only Python and the Mastodon API: follow the community, read recent posts on the bot’s timeline, and filter out replies using the status.in_reply_to_id attribute. However, there is a critical problem with Mastodon: you can’t follow a LemBinFed community if there is a LemBinFed user with the same handle!
