It’s just not needed though, is the thing. These “links” aren’t links that are posted for people to follow, they’re just an artifact of having posted from Mastodon. As we get more interaction between the two platforms, your bot as currently written will reply to every single post and comment made from Mastodon, ever. It serves literally no purpose in this situation other than to clog up threads.
I’m not trying to start a fight or anything. If you absolutely won’t be convinced that it’s pointless replying to Mastodon tags, maybe you can at least consider limiting it to replying only on the main post? Otherwise, again, every single comment in the thread that is made from Mastodon is going to get the same bot response.
Not sure if you’re aware but this is still happening. In fact, looking at the bot’s posts today is it possible you accidentally set it to only respond to Mastodon threads? 😅
It’s just not needed though, is the thing. These “links” aren’t links that are posted for people to follow, they’re just an artifact of having posted from Mastodon. As we get more interaction between the two platforms, your bot as currently written will reply to every single post and comment made from Mastodon, ever. It serves literally no purpose in this situation other than to clog up threads.
I’m not trying to start a fight or anything. If you absolutely won’t be convinced that it’s pointless replying to Mastodon tags, maybe you can at least consider limiting it to replying only on the main post? Otherwise, again, every single comment in the thread that is made from Mastodon is going to get the same bot response.
Replying to only the top-level post for Mastodon makes sense to me, thanks for the suggestion!
Edit: I temporarily disabled replies to Mastodon posts until I can think of a better solution.
Not sure if you’re aware but this is still happening. In fact, looking at the bot’s posts today is it possible you accidentally set it to only respond to Mastodon threads? 😅
Examples: https://lemm.ee/post/1456125, https://lemm.ee/post/1375340, https://lemm.ee/post/1441558
Yep, that’s exactly what happened… Let’s pretend that you didn’t notice, shall we? 😆
Happens to the best of us 😄