Deebster

You can interact here from other ActivityPub-supporting codebases so you could just run one of the minimal microblogging sites. You wouldn’t get the same experience as being a Lemmy instance though.

They call them them magazines, e.g. @wholesome@kbin.social is at https://kbin.social/m/wholesome or here on beehaw at https://beehaw.org/c/wholesome@kbin.social.

should only reply to posts/comments when explicitly requested to

I assume you mean somelike like !remindme 4 days but then one of your examples is “half a cup of onions” and I can’t see your fictional American thinking to trigger the bot - which means someone would have to reply to that person to request a bot conversion.

Similarly, there’s a music IDing bot on reddit that responds to human-language questions like “whats the song” which is 100% ok with me (and the users have always been pleasantly surprised from what I’ve seen).

If it’s the same post I saw, that was one of the main devs - he then mused that someone should create that bot here.

I like this model, although circlejerk can be the meme version too. Even a fairly quiet sub like /r/baduk/ begat /r/badukshitposting/ and it works well.

Yeah, when a simple bots can post most of the replies. E.g. if post.contains("r/theydidthemath") { post.reply("/r/theydidthemonstermath"); } then it’s gone too far. There are some good, creative ones, like The Old Reddit Switch-a-roo, but they’re too few and far between.