Lemmy Know (let me know) is a lightweight CLI application / Docker service that monitors Lemmy for reports on posts and comments and sends notification. These can be sent to a Discord channel with a webhook or as MQTT messages (schema), which is useful for more complex setups with e.g., Node-RED.
MQTT (aka MQ Telemetry Transport) is a machine-to-machine or “Internet of Things” connectivity protocol on top of TCP/IP. It allows extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport.
Frankly, this should be implemented with something like a combination of:
https://github.com/QazCetelic/lemmy-know
https://www.home-assistant.io/
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/mqtt/
https://github.com/DevelopmentalOctopus/ha-buttplug
https://intiface.com/central/
Some collection of hardware devices from:
https://iostindex.com/?filter0Availability=Available%2CDIY&filter1Connection=Digital&filter2ButtplugSupport=4
That’d permit for, say, having message events drive a state machine to control devices or something like that.
I’m not sure whether I’m more impressed or disturbed by the amount of thought you’ve given this
The unix shell pipeline keeps giving