More for other mods to be aware that it's not going to work quite as smoothly as they might hope. But yeah adding that to the bot replies makes a lot of sense, good thinking!

I'm wondering, is it all or nothing in terms of which posts get tagged? For example I mod !knitting@lemmy.world and most of our posts are someone showing off a project, which is easy to comment on from Mastodon (I've been boosting and replying to stuff manually to draw attention there as you described in your OP). But then we also have things like Work-In-Progress Wednesday, where multiple people are posting images of their WIPs to one thread. This doesn't work so well with Mastodon because images don't federate (in either direction) with the exception of the first image attached to the main post, so there's no point sharing it there.

Not to give you more work but maybe it's an idea to have an opt-out keyword that can be included in a post, and the bot will know to ignore that one?

Again, really is great work, you're always contributing useful stuff to the Fediverse and I for one really appreciate it so please take these rambling thoughts in the constructive manner they're intended, they are definitely not complaints 😄

I understand all that and am not criticizing the pace of lemmy development. My frustration is that in the past, you've said hashtags don't make sense for lemmy because communities are the organizational method. Even in your other comment to the OP in this thread, you said

I dont think it makes sense to implement federated hashtags before we have post tags in Lemmy figured out.

But federated hashtags already work across the fediverse. Implementation details are basically settled. I don't know what you mean by post tags, but any other feature that uses a tag-like mechanism would have to work well alongside the currently standard way of using hashtags in order for lemmy's hashtags to remain interoperable with the fediverse.

It seems that you don't personally care about federated hashtags and so this feature will probably remain at the bottom of the priority list and that's what we're lamenting about in this thread. Federated hashtags would increase interoperability with the rest of the fediverse and would improve the overall experience so its a bummer that yall don't see that.

Sorry. Any brusqueness in my post was directed at the lemmy devs, not you. It seems like such an obvious feature. I think some people on the fediverse get into the mindset of recreating corporate silos one-to-one instead of building a cohesive fediverse that has way more functionality than any one network.

I think your proposal is reasonable. However it depends how exactly post tags will get implemented, which is still rather vague. I dont think it makes sense to implement federated hashtags before we have post tags in Lemmy figured out.

In any case your tool looks very useful as a stopgap, and can help to test how hashtag federation can work in practice.

This shouldn’t really make any difference. In lemmy it would appear as a normal reply notification once per thread.

Still an annoyance, i post on reddit and lemmy for years, to keep having to delete that reply for years to come could accumulate to a significant amount of time, and small segments of time wasted tend to add up

I’ll see if I can expand the bot, but I don’t want each reply to end up like a wall of text.

You could add the "about this bot" the line above it ( making a two lines message) but this could be cryptic and therefore off putting for new lemmy users (creating a bad impression of the platform).

That would defeat the purpose, as the discovery from mastodon would happen days/weeks/months after that thread was active.

When you reply the person you reply to still get notifications , lemmy "active" sort bumps posts when they get new comments (see docs) and anyway most of the time i assume people just read comments and don't respond, and the idea is to make lemmy more discoverable so after that they could visit lemmy and participate more actively.

i can see why you may not want this but have you potentially considered rehosting/attaching any images from image posts in the bot's replies? as lemmy doesn't federate those properly just yet (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4035/commits/ecd8e3b11b5292bad73d48c2fbf11db00bc432c2 will fix it for posts originating in lemmy AFAIK) it'd make the bot quite a lot more useful and things like memes do tend to get boosted a lot more widely than links, though i can definitely see why it may feel a bit like freebooting (so, it could perhaps be a per-community option for non-OC-heavy communities?)