The rules for bots # Bots should be clearly prompted by a command # Bots that always post without human intervention are noisy and are often unwanted.
Bots should not act in a community without mods from that community being contacted first # Moderators should not have to chase down the bots being used in their community, it should be opt-in. Just ask, be nice.
Bots should minimize the space they take with their messages # A bot’s response should be a small as possible to avoid taking space that could be used by people.
It has support for specific news sites, I don’t want to rely on some automatic text extraction because those are prone to breaking. Here are the content extractors themselves, each for one site. If a post that contains a link to any of the supported sites is found across all of Lemmy (that the bot can see), it extracts the text and then summarizes it using this. It takes 6 sentences directly from the article that look most important to the machine learning model it uses. Then it posts it as a comment.