I’m re-posting this as I’ve moved the community to a different server for various reasons, and want to ensure anybody interested is aware.
It’s a community for discussion of the UK Freeview TV platform, with a bot which posts channel changes when they happen.
[email protected] (Lemmy local link)
@[email protected] (Kbin local link)
https://feddit.uk/c/dtt (searching for this tends to produce the best results on Lemmy if the community isn’t known)
Oooh, so niche! I’m intrigued :-)
I remember when the UK only had 4 channels, Freeview is like a wild futuristic selection of soooo much stuff!
Granted the picture is often way worse than old terrestrial on a CRT was, due to their modern tight bandwidth allocations, and most of what’s on is absolute drivel, but gosh there’s so much choice! 😮
I remember 3 and when 1 only ran for a few hours a day.
Where was you previously hosted?
Fedia.io (Kbin). With my bot running on Lemmy it made sense to move it so the bot and community were hosted in the same place - the federation wasn’t working reliably.
That’s fair. I think Federation should be better when Ernest finishes the kbin API, but nevertheless, good luck on feddit.uk
How’s the bot working out for you? I see you’ve got one ticking over for the Bedfordshire community that seems to be producing a nice trickle of posts through the day - do you decide what gets posted or is it slow news week in Beds?
The bot generally works OK (the problems are more the Pi it runs on has a somewhat flaky wifi connection so sometimes it posts stuff it shouldn’t post, or vice versa, than anything to do with Lemmy)
The Bedfordshire one is something I knocked up to get some content flowing. The sources aren’t the best (lack of RSS feeds on websites these days) but, yes, it posts everything - every day is a slow news day in Beds 😄
Well slow news data are better than the alternative, I suppose.
Interesting to hear about how the bots work. I was probably wondering about something fancier.
Yeah, I’ve never bothered to try to create one with a moderation queue. Seems like too much work!
And you don’t need to if actual news is fairly predictable. I’d either want to funnel a flood into a trickle or check first for false positives. I am sure there’ll be plenty along eventually.
