since im getting so many messages im starting to wonder if i should make a bot that boosts people who make stuff. but also, i have absolutely no clue how i would make such a thing
any of my tech brethren have any idea how easy/hard this would be?
A bot itself that boosts isnt that hard, but programming knowlege is definitively required. And It ofc depends on what you want your bot to do: should it post as yourself or as its own entity? Should it be able to detect things you dont want to boost (aka a "bad stuff" filter).
The maybe complicated thing tho would be running it since it then would need some sort of server (if you want it to run 24/7 that is. else a normal PC would be fine here)
@mai_lapyst i'm a coder so i should be able to handle the code >_> atm i would settle for a python script or something that takes a link to a local version of a post and boosts it as my account
@eniko Thats good, that definitivly makes things easier xD Python should be enough to handle this task; also there are two implementations for python so speaking to mastodon shouldn't be a issue :3 And a link isnt neccessary, the post's ID totally is enough for the python sdk's.
I'd probably just put it in a script with some local file to store what you approved or disapproved for boost already and then just boost the first one in the list whenever you run it and have a second script to list and add stuff.
@eniko I mean, then you have half the bot already done, now you "just" need to automate it. Start simple by trying to make it easier to list and filter the posts, then later replace the boosting step (or the other way around). You can keep some of the manual steps for quite a while :)
@eniko If you input the right data, call .split on the url, then do POST /api/v1/statuses/:id/reblog where id is the last part of the url you split. You need more fancy stuff if the last part of the url sometimes is not the post id. :)
@dodgy_bagel i figure when someone @'s the bot and they haven't been boosted before and have less than X followers, they go into a queue. the bot boosts posts from the queue every Y timespan
So like, if there were multiple such bots I could just make a message with nothing but https://tech.lgbt/@s and it would be boosted to infinitely, but only once per account?
@esdin well, at it'd need to do is keep a running list of users that have been boosted before, and put posts from users who @ the bot with less than X followers into a queue that it boosts one from every Y minutes
@esdin actually for my current predicament, how hard would it be to rig up like a python script or something that takes a pmg post link and boosts that post?
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