I'm mildly worried I know (as in, am aware of their existence, thankfully not having interacted with them) who you're talking about
ShittyKopper
joined 2 years ago
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?)
interesting idea
one thing I like from kbin is that because it does this natively I can follow a kbin magazine from an empty unused account and create a misskey antenna pointed at the hashtags in question (with replies hidden) which allows me to subscribe to kbin communities without getting spammed with boosts of replies, so I may end up making use of this depending on how widely it gets adopted
that said I'm still not convinced that increasing lemmys reach outside the threadiverse makes sense just yet while its federation is so buggy, case in point: https://brain.d.on-t.work/notes/9md8phwlkzlj0xe9 (edits on posts are repeatedly re-boosted, which likely wasn't noticed as mastodon only ever allows one boost from an actor)
(or the fact that link posts don't federate to misskey and forks at all, but that's due to a bug in misskey)
TLDR of linked gist: wayland is not X therefore it is bad. end of.
Wayland breaks Xclip: As you said it yourself, Xclip is an X11 application, so it doesn’t work on Wayland. Of course it wouldn’t work on Wayland. With Wayland, we’re trying to prevent what happened with Xorg from happening again, or am I wrong?
also, https://github.com/bugaevc/wl-clipboard. perhaps all OP (of gist) needs is a simple shim that can convert calls to xclip to wl-copy/paste? that doesn't seem too hard to make compared to keeping X.org alive I'd say (perhaps they should try making it if it's that much of a problem)
Wayland breaks screensavers: Yeah, that seems to be the case.
from the dev of xscreensaver at https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/ :
[...] Adding screen savers to Wayland is not simply a matter of "port the XScreenSaver daemon", because under the Wayland model, screen blanking and locking should not be a third-party user-space app; much of the logic must be embedded into the display manager itself. This is a good thing! It is a better model than what we have under X11. [...]
[...] Under X11, you run XScreenSaver, which is a user-space program that tries really hard to keep the screen locked and never crash. It is very good at this, but that it needs to try so hard in the first place is a fundamental design flaw of X11. [...]
other people can comment on the parts they know about, these are two i know of off the top of my head
I swear fossbros lose reading comprehension skills faster than Tumblr once you ask for any kind of software recommendations
so, are you paying for it?