Hey everyone! We’re launching a new community bot to help make music more accessible. When someone shares a link from a paid streaming service, @FreeThePlaylistBot@walledgarden.xyz will automatically reply with YouTube links so everyone can listen along, regardless of what subscriptions they have.
What to expect:
- Automatic YouTube alternatives for shared music links
- The bot works best when your posts include the artist and song title, as it uses that information as a fallback to find matches
- This is a beta test - the bot may only be available sporadically while we’re testing
- Expect some quirks and hiccups as we work out the kinks
- Goal is full-time deployment once we’ve ironed out any issues
Thanks for your patience as we test this out! Let us know if you run into any problems or have suggestions. Here’s to keeping the music flowing for everyone!
This build of the bot is now running full time-ish since testing has gone pretty well. I don’t have it configured to automatically restart itself if it crashes or if the server reboots yet. Even though it’s running from our testing instance I don’t want it to create a situation where it boot loops the server if something new/unexpected comes up. If you happen to notice it’s down for an extended time or otherwise acting up please DM me so I can take a look.
Update to this-
The extended running introduced a new bug that caused the bot to start double posting. I believe it has to do with how our Lemmy instances are hosted so
I’ll need to run some things by our host before enabling it again.Change of plans. Going to try something else first.