For those that weren't aware, IEMBot from Iowa State has come to the Fediverse officially. I'll leave it up to the bot maintainers whether or not they would rather continue running their own version which many of you are most likely already following.
@WXFanatic Don’t get me wrong, BTW: we all truly appreciate the work @akrherz has done to bring another instance of iembot feeds. If our X-perience has a lesson, we need multiple sources for critical information like IEM.
2023 is the year that @vgan and @WeavingWithAI get together and make a bot-baby that makes people guess the prompts used to create an AI art image #bots#AIArt#botmakers
Nice, someone is pushing out Philly's Office of Emergency Management alerts here (though... probably should not put the official logo there): #bots#disasters Philadelphia https://philly.vs-the.world/
Zwei Wochen nach Twitters Leselimit: Threads führt ebenfalls Limits ein
Bei Twitter hat die Begrenzung der angezeigten Beiträge für den jüngsten Exodus gesorgt. Gegen das wachsende Spam-Problem setzt auch Threads nun auf Limits.
🐻 @bearcam: videos from Katmai National Park in Alaska, frequently featuring bears
🐠 @TropicalReefAquarium: a view from inside of a tropical reef aquarium in Long Beach, California
@bearcam@TropicalReefAquarium Typically I make bots that post only every 4-6 hours, but I figured since these are mostly live feeds, posting hourly makes sense? Easier to catch something interesting happening. Let me know what you think.
Also, a fun fact, adding these to https://botwiki.org brings the total number of bots on the site to 2,001 🎉
For bots that post random stuff from a list, do you post completely randomly, or do you tweak your bot to, for example, avoid posting the same thing twice in a row?