Interested in coding one to bring content over and do cross posting across instances.
I know that bots have already been developed. I saw one on its own instance that just scraped Reddit for the top posts on r/memes. Can’t remember what it was called. But I think lots of bots will be deterred since Karma isn’t really a thing.
I’m looking for a base bot that I just write routines for, which is run on set intervals. Otherwise I had to design an architecture on my own and I want to avoid that if I can.
Also it has to be in python so I can leverage db0’s lemmy library.
Personally I wish you wouldn’t. Look what happened last time. Bots seem cool, whilst they are doing work for you but before you know it we will just be logging in to watch fake accounts talking to one another.
I think you should code a bot detector, which can then be used as a basis to goad them into a confined space that they believe is the real fediverse, and then watch their behaviour.
That will happen regardless
It reminded me of when Mastodon’s offical client app added button to make account on
mastodon.social
instance that all suddenly spambot just started to appear and for a bit which for a bit, other instances blocked it until they have sorted it out.
Begin rant
This might just be me, but I hate site wide pinned posts. It’s probably just a pet peeve.
My home page should be clean and sacred. I load it to see what’s new or hot or active. I don’t want to see some post at the top every time I reload just because an individual has decided everyone needs to see it every time they reload.
These posts can be important for things like fund raising or emergency posts, but used very rarely.
End rant.
What does that have to do with bots?
I don’t think I mentioned bots