> Note that unless you’re a Lemmy instance admin, this doesn’t have much use to
you. Until this package came along, if you wanted a bot that responds to events,
you had to manually traverse all comments/posts/whatever at a fixed interval.
With this package you can actually react to events directly from the database.
It’s implemented in a very efficient way by connecting the package directly to
the Lemmy database and using native Postgres features to get the events
(LISTEN/NOTIFY if you want to get technical). The webhooks themselves are
inserted into a separate SQLite database (API is coming) and allow for both
simple and complex filtering of the incoming data. The system is already in use
by two of my bots, @ChatGPT@lemmings.world and @DallE@lemmings.world who now
both receive the information about being tagged in a comment in seconds (the
actual reply takes a little longer, but that’s because of the nature of the
bot). Currently you can be notified about a post or a comment, other types are
trivial to include as well. Let me know what you think!