JProl 🌍🎶💾🆓🐦
JProl 🌍🎶💾🆓🐦  ·  3 days ago
«As you may have read, #BotsIn.Space is closing down, I have lots of automated #bot accounts living on the #Fediverse - and I want them to continue posting. Installing and maintaining an entire Mastodon instance sounds like hard work.

»I write my own #ActivityPub server? Why, yes! Yes I did!

»I took the code and stripped it down to the bare essentials. All you need to do is upload two files- index.php and .htaccess - fill in your details, and you're done.»

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/introducing-activitybot-the-simplest-way-to-build-mastodon-bots/

Terence Eden
Terence Eden  ·  4 days ago
🆕 blog! “Introducing ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots”

As you may have read, BotsIn.Space is closing down, I have lots of automated bot accounts living on the Fediverse - and I want them to continue posting. Installing and maintaining an entire Mastodon instance sounds like hard work. Paying people to host my stuff feels …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/introducing-activitybot-the-simplest-way-to-build-mastodon-bots/
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#ActivityPub #bot #fediverse

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow  ·  last month
Every now and again, someone with very different priorities and cognition to me will discover a years-old Twitter thread of mine and go through it and reply to every post telling me how great their favorite rapacious multinational corporation is. It's hard to tell whether they're having an episode, or on someone's payroll, or what, but wow, is this ever weird-ass behavior.

Anyway, enjoy this essay from April 2023!

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/25/greedflation/#commissar-bezos

George Sellner
George Sellner  ·  last month
@pluralistic someone testing a #bot ?
Erlend Sogge Heggen
Erlend Sogge Heggen  ·  4 months ago
I no longer feel comfortable boosting posts from pure meme accounts unless they’re exceptionally well known or have authenticated themselves somehow, e.g. with a two-way link to the memer’s personal account.

In this day and age it’s just too easy fully automate this type of account as a bad actor with the intention of posting misinformation somewhere down the line, once the account looks legit enough.

#meme #misinformation #bot #safety