We set up a bridge between the Lemmy.world General Matrix room and the Public-1 channel on the Lemmy World discord server yesterday. It’s not perfect as emoji reactions aren’t visible and some minor things like how it handles edited messages but other than that it seems to be working well.
Now people on both chat clients can interact with eachother!
Could the bridge be used by bots that work with Discord but not with Matrix? 🤔Bc there’s quite a few of those, and me as a Matrix user can’t have anything
Probably not this bridge. However, if you’re comfortable setting up your own Matrix server, you can run a Matrix/Discord bridge that’s essentially a self bot, and that does support interacting with most bots. After that, you can join the normal Discord and use your normal Matrix app to interact with the Discord server.
I don’t think it’ll work if you want to add a Discord bot to an existing Matrix chatroom, unless you make everyone bridge their Matrix accounts through your bridge.
Just don’t try to do ANY friend management (adding friends is what triggers Discord’s bot detection the most and will get you banned).
Eh I just want a bot that will notify me of new posts and reports on Matrix
If the Discord channel already posts the text, that text should get forwarded to Matrix as a normal message. You can set notifications in particular channels (or even for particular keywords) to noisy and that should let you get notifications. The LW Discord bridge should definitely be sufficient for that.
Yea but I guess that’s something the lw/bridge admins would have to set up with the bot makers, wouldn’t they
Nope not directly doable. As the messages are webhooks and most bots ignore those
I’d just want to be passively notified, not looking to control the bot