PicoBlaanket

Yeah, I understand what you mean (after a year of exploring the Web Socket).

That lemmy auth value is pulled from a JWT cookie in the browser - which you can access in JS by document.cookie. It allows user-specific API calls (retrieving saved posts, subscribed communities, etc).

Yes exactly - living on the edge!

One way to learn the new API is - explore the code of (similar) extensions and browser scripts, to see how they build and send their calls.

Is there a specific API call you’d like to make?

Maybe someone can reveal that method and endpoint.

Just pick one of the suggestions and start doing it.

There are a lot of great ideas in your other post.

That’s true - Lemmy displays new comments above “top” comments, allowing them to be seen by everyone.

1. To find new communities - go to https://lemmyverse.net/communities, click the top right “Home” icon and type your home instance (ex: lemmy.world)… now you can open/subscribe to every community you like.

2. Get a good mobile app - they are listed here (with a ton of other great new-user tips): https://lemmy.ml/post/1470777

3. Change your default “Sort Type” to “Subscribed + New” (in settings) - now you have a fresh feed of your exact interests, every time you open Lemmy.

4. Communicate in a genuine, open-minded way - to me, Lemmy is a good place to really connect with people, and have honest discussions (versus the often more ‘performative’ tone of greeddit).

I agree, there is a time for purposeful sarcasm.

To me, it requires two conditions:

1. A person has already expressed their real perspective to a specific ‘opponent’, and

2. That specific opponent cannot see the hole in their own logic.

This Norm MacDonald radio clip is a good example.

He explains his true perspective, and only switches to sarcasm for one sentence (at 5:25), to show the opponent how she is being goofy [and it works].

His foundation of sincerity gives context to the sarcasm.

Conversely - nowadays - a common ‘communication style’ is to just spray aimless sarcasm at distant or imaginary foes,

which (to me) reflects a deeper cultural issue…

a hiding behind mockery, a suppression of real constructive bravery,

just dunking on one-dimensional charicatures of strangers (who might not actually exist).

[So I agree with you - there are times for purposeful sarcasm.]

This is a very short story about sarcasm:

Ted opposes racist rants.

Yesterday - Ted posted a few exaggerated racist rants (sometimes with the /s).

2,177 people saw Ted’s racist rants.

• 50% of them guessed he was joking.

• 98% of them would not have seen a racist rant yesterday, if it weren’t for Ted’s little gag.

So the question is:

Despite the sarcasm… isn’t Ted just spreading more of what he honestly deplores?

Is Ted subverting his own integrity?

Why not say how we actually feel?

“OP made it opt-in”

1 - It’s not opt-in “By User” though. It’s opt-in “By Community”…

So if one person turns it on, 1000’s of other people see it.

OP keeps saying “you can just toggle it off”… but I really can’t… when anyone can toggle it back on.

2 - Future options for toggling are not much better (bottom of the repo, To-Do section):

• “if a moderator adds the haiku-bot, non-mod users cannot remove it”

• “only allow moderators to subscribe/unsubscribe”

…so the toggle option wouldn’t apply to 99% of people anyway.

“a few users were waiting for this (-OP)”

Who was waiting for it? The top level replies in this thread are:

• you, who wouldn’t use it
• me, who doesn’t want it
• Otome, who doesn’t like it

I think your bot rules are pretty solid though.

Overall, I just feel like… Lemmy is a fresh space…

a chance to make a new culture…

maybe it’s best to leave that old bloated carcass behind.

1 - Yes - some bots are helpful, some (most) are annoying:

• a Haiku bot falls into your “triggered by accident” category (any post that is 17 syllables).

• a Haiku bot also does not add any new contextual information (it just duplicates a comment).

That’s why I’m saying the haiku bot is junk.

2 - In this very post, when Otome said “I never liked the Haiku Bot”… OP responded “I’ve never liked them much either”…

so I’m asking OP: “why create a bot to spam lemmy with low-value duplicate content, if you don’t even like that bot yourself?”

I’m asking you - what value do YOU think this Haiku bot adds?

You did not answer the question… I asked you:

How is a haiku bot not invasive spam?

It’s basically the same as the “all numbers in your post add up to 69” bot.

Okay - What value does a haiku bot add?

It only tells you that a post was 17 syllables…

• and then duplicates a comment (spam),
• and then stretches the duplicated comment vertically (spam).

If you agree that most bots are spam, then why are you making and promoting bots?

Here’s a human haiku:

bots are part of what
made reddit such a wasteland.
most bots are just spam.

i wish lemmy would
remain a place for humans.
why can’t we just talk?

The JS-client docs are automatically created by TypeDoc (which takes TypeScript code and generates HTML documentation).

And cool username Charlie Fish :)

Yeah lemmy is a chill place.

It is wild to watch the rapid expansion.