Forgejo v1.21 is available and comes with significant improvements to Forgejo Actions and the Forgejo runner. It also brings better user blocking, many documentation improvements, a shortcut button to open new PRs, mail notifications when new users are created and more.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•7 months ago

    I’m curious, why is this bot currently being downvoted for almost every comment it makes?

    • @[email protected]English
      9•7 months ago

      I don’t know about other people, but I find these comments noisy. I’d rather just see replies to the post from actual people.

      • db0English
        9•7 months ago

        Please, just block the bot. If there was a way to make the replies from the bot not appear on lemmy, I would add it, but it’s not possible.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•7 months ago

          Hey no problem :) I totally understand and read through the linked README. FWIW I find the fact that Lemmy is in Rust, pretty… tricky. Getting Lemmy to run on my OpenBSD server started with a couple of crazy segfaults!

      • @[email protected]English
        4•7 months ago

        yeah I guess maybe the formatting and the verbosity seems a bit annoying? Wonder what the alternatives solution could be to better engage people from mastodon, which is what this bot is trying to address.

        edit: just to be clear, I’m not affiliated with the bot or its creator. This is just my observation from multiple posts I see this bot comments on.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•7 months ago

          I wonder if perhaps wrapping the majority of the text in a spoiler would work. Though I don’t know if that translates over to Mastodon (if not, it might look a bit funky on that side).

          • db0English
            3•7 months ago

            Unfotunately mastodon doesn’t support markdown, and even trying to do hyperlinks is an exercise in frustration. The integration between lemmy and mastodon sucks atm. It’s part of why the bot exists.

            • @[email protected]English
              1•7 months ago

              Ah I see, that’s unfortunate then. For what its worth, I still think the bot is a great idea for discoverability and bridging the two services together! I hadn’t seen it before since I usually have bot users muted and happened to see this comment chain while logged out.

              I’ve given it a follow from my Mastodon account since I do tend to miss quite a few cool Lemmy posts it seems, and I think it’ll help me find some communities in general that I’ll want to subscribe to from over here.