I’m re-posting this as I’ve moved the community to a different server for various reasons, and want to ensure anybody interested is aware.
It’s a community for discussion of the UK Freeview TV platform, with a bot which posts channel changes when they happen.
[email protected] (Lemmy local link)
@[email protected] (Kbin local link)
https://feddit.uk/c/dtt (searching for this tends to produce the best results on Lemmy if the community isn’t known)
Fedia.io (Kbin). With my bot running on Lemmy it made sense to move it so the bot and community were hosted in the same place - the federation wasn’t working reliably.
That’s fair. I think Federation should be better when Ernest finishes the kbin API, but nevertheless, good luck on feddit.uk
How’s the bot working out for you? I see you’ve got one ticking over for the Bedfordshire community that seems to be producing a nice trickle of posts through the day - do you decide what gets posted or is it slow news week in Beds?
The bot generally works OK (the problems are more the Pi it runs on has a somewhat flaky wifi connection so sometimes it posts stuff it shouldn’t post, or vice versa, than anything to do with Lemmy)
The Bedfordshire one is something I knocked up to get some content flowing. The sources aren’t the best (lack of RSS feeds on websites these days) but, yes, it posts everything - every day is a slow news day in Beds 😄
Well slow news data are better than the alternative, I suppose.
Interesting to hear about how the bots work. I was probably wondering about something fancier.
Yeah, I’ve never bothered to try to create one with a moderation queue. Seems like too much work!
And you don’t need to if actual news is fairly predictable. I’d either want to funnel a flood into a trickle or check first for false positives. I am sure there’ll be plenty along eventually.