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I'm building a Socrates-style fanfic recommendation bot for Discord and I'd love your input.

There was a bot on Discord I used before called Socrates, based on Flipper and I wanted to build something like that. Mine is using data from my fanfiction archive so it won't give proper recommendations until a few users like a few fics. After that it should get better the more it's used.

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Code repository
Link to a Discord channel to use the bot in this server
Link to connect Discord bot to a server
Telegram group to use the bot
Matrix room to use the bot

What it does

It's a companion bot for that self-hosted archive — think "your own AO3" that can also import/scrape from other sites. The bot gives you fanfic recommendations right in Discord, Socrates-style:

• Recommendations from your reading history — !recs, !fresh, !gems, !roll, with pagination (!next / !prev / !page 3)
• Cross-platform taste: AO3, fanfiction.net, and RoyalRoad are unified into one works model, so your history on one site feeds recommendations across all of them. No "500 favs limit" wall.
• Slash commands for search, quotes, downloads: /search, /ask (ask a question about a fic's content in natural language), /quote, /download (EPUB/MOBI/PDF straight to Discord)
• Library commands: bookmark, rate, kudos, block/unblock, updates on followed fics
• Community stuff: fic requests board, roadmap voting, links back to your web profile

The honest limitation

The recommendation engine learns from what people like on the archive — and right now my site has zero users. So "personalized" recs won't be proper until a few people like a few fics. The more people actually use it, the better it gets. Once there's real taste data to learn from, the recs should beat what you got from Socrates, because it's learning from actual engagement, not just what's popular.

So, what would you want?

If you were going to invite a fanfic bot to your Discord server, what would make you actually use it?

• Recs based on what? (fandoms you're active in, specific pairings, tone/vibe, length?)
• What's the one feature that would make it your default rec source?
• How do you feel about bots that track your reading history and suggest you what to read next vs. ones that give more generic suggestions?
• Anything Socrates used to do that you miss and wish existed elsewhere?

I'm building this solo and want to make something the community actually wants, not just what I think is cool. Fire away.

Improve the process for feature requests by removing the handoff that most damages problem frequency and affected revenue.

#FeatureRequests #Startups #ProblemSolving

https://wafrn.net/faq/user.html#featureRequests is the closest thing I've seen to a formal list of planned features but you can also search the codeberg issues for ones labeled "enchancement" cause there are things in there that aren't on the list that are at least being considered afaik

https://codeberg.org/wafrn/wafrn/issues?labels=564670

As part of the explore/search dropdown, it might be a nice feature to have "from:me" and "in-library" as one of the top dropdown options, or default.

Or, a pop-up/link to a page like this:

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-stuff-on-mastodon/

Or, perhaps I'll try to be less senile.

#FediTips #FeatureRequests #FediSearch #Search

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We prioritize new features based on the rankings – your voice matters! 🚆✨
#viaduct #FeatureRequests #MyTrainMap

mastodon needs signatures. like the ones we had on phpbb forums

#featurerequests

We need to be able to add followed hashtags to our lists. I can’t be the only person that heavily leverages the List functionality of Mastodon.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #FeatureRequests

So so glad @phanpy added a toggle for per account notifications! This was one of the last remaining reasons to regularly open Mastodon web.
#fediverse #phanpy #FeatureRequests #FediverseClients

Music applications should let you import a blacklist e.g. all the songs from bad high school relationship mixtapes.

Don't make me wait for them to pop up and have to hide them one at a time...

#featurerequests #music

When boosting it would be good if you could add a CW when one isn’t already present, but you want to add one for your followers. #masotdon #featurerequest #featurerequests

Thank you to the administrator of veganism.social for increasing the character limit on post ( toot ) to 10,000 characters.

Nobody invites people to a party and then makes it a rule to not talk too much.

The "social" in "social media".

The default character limit on Mastodon is too short.

#CharacterLimit #Character #Toots #Toot #Post #Feature #FeatureRequests #FeatureRequest #MastodonDevelopers

@[email protected]

>move instance

The tools to do that aren't here.

The best you can do is an incomplete process that leaves portions of your account behind and a complicated process you have to do manually.

#Gargron #FeatureRequests #MastodonMigration #MastodonFeature #MastodonDevelopers

@nm

Yuck.

#Mastodon has no shortage of #FeatureRequests and #BugFixes to keep them busy. They didn't need to gratuitously rearrange the links.

Thanks for the heads up Nume, and for keeping the software the latest.

#featurerequests #dbnavigator:

1️⃣android notifications in der app wieder hervorholen. einmal geklickt, sind sie weg.

2️⃣notifications, die per email kommen parallel an die app schicken. single source of truth.

Danke 🙏

If I post on Facebook I don't want, I don't expect, my post to appear on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. If I post on Mastodon I don't want my content to go to Kbin, Lemmy, Threads (Meta's decentralized app), or a site/app I never heard of. I don't want my content going someplace that I did not *choose* as a destination.

I've gotten a number of federation fan boys lecturing me that is what the decentralization is all about.

Decentralization has been sold as a protective move against corporate abuse. Preventing another Elon Musk and protecting people from anti-user pro-profit policies.

Mastodon and open source are supposed to be about respecting users.

I think it should be a user's choice where her/his content ends up. I think it should be in their power to make that choice easily without having to rely on the good will of an Instance Admin.

I think each Toot & Reply should have the following visibility options.

1. Public - Everywhere
2. Private ( only @ tagged people )
3. Mastodon ( everywhere on Mastodon, only )
4. Local ( only on the local server of the user )

Plus a Preference for the user to pick his/her default visibility level.

#Mastodon #Facebook #Meta #Threads #Feature #FeatureRequests #MastodonDevelopers #MastodonFeature #MastodonFeatureRequest

Making feature requests for Mastodon on #GitHub

I understand comments being made on feature requests at GitHub.

What I have experienced is something else. I'm not sure I can articulate it.

These comments seem different.

Sort of like a discussion forum thread.

Random people popping in. Kibbitzing. Being oppositional as an end in itself.

What the hell? I just wanted to make a suggestion. I didn't invite them.

I don't even know if they are involved with the project.

#Mastodn #GitHub #Suggestions #FeatureRequests

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@th_in_gs You can submit #featurerequests to #Mastadon via #github: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md. For the wider Fediverse, there's also this: https://mstdn.social/@feditips/108777221828253183. Hope that helps! #mastodontips #tips

@benjaminbellamy
@Castopod

Hi @romain

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#featureRequests Avatar and “introduction” :)

@TomDelargy @neilhimself #QuotePosts are a tool. They have tremendous power. A chainsaw can destroy or it can make a beautiful ice sculpture. A hammer can shatter or it can be used to nail a new house together.

@neilhimself & others use them to great effect. Many others use them to ruinous effect.

Give us the tool and, like the rest of #Mastodon and the #Fediverse, let users reward/punish its use as we see fit.

#QuoteToot #QuoteTweet #QuoteTweets #QuotePost #FeatureRequest #FeatureRequests

Would be nice to have a #list of "posts not on any list", so it would be easier to notice if someone who should be on a #Mastodon list has been accidentally omitted.
#FeatureRequests

Masto feature-request: quote-toots.
#twittermigration #featurerequests #mastodon #twitterexodus

A problem for me on Mastodon has been creating Lists that curate a specific kind of topic rather than by-personality.

If I list a climate scientist they post pictures of their cats.

If I list a photographer, their photos sit amongst posts about putting the kettle on.

Is there a way to improve the signal-to-noise ratio? A way to make a List only pull through posts from listed accounts that contain specific topic hashtags?

#mastodon #lists #featurerequests #curation #mastodonUX #help