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CWSmith, 2 days ago to mastodon

Does anyone have a good post for generating a post bot? All I keep finding never really seems to make a lot of sense.

#Mastodon
#MastoAdmin
#MastodonCommunity
#Bots

reiver, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

@CWSmith

What do you want the bot to do?

reiver, 1 day ago

@CWSmith

Which Fediverse software do you want the bot to post to?

Mastodon?

reiver, 1 day ago

@CWSmith

How familiar are you with using HTTP based APIs?

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/#create

Are you familiar with how to do an HTTP POST on a URL, using whatever programming language you are using?

reiver, 1 day ago

@CWSmith

Do you have any programming experience?

reiver, 1 day ago

@CWSmith

If your intent is to program the bot yourself, then —

I would recommend first learning how to program BEFORE you try to create the bot.

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There is a good book meant to teach programming to those who have no programming experience. It is called:

"Learn Python The Hard Way"

If you read that, and do all the exercises in the book, you should be able to do basic programming.

rolle, 7 days ago to internet

The vibes on Threads have been shifted. The For you feed brings up negative and controversial posts. Unsurpisingly no such negativity exists on my chronological feeds on Mastodon.

#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Threads

reiver, 6 days ago

@rolle

I don't seem to be seeing "negative" or "controversial" posts when I look at my Threads "For You" feed.

Do you think the change you are seeing on your Threads "For You" feed is something that affects most Threads users? Or something that may have just affected you?

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atomicpoet, 6 days ago to random

Whenever I’m at a Korean restaurant, they have K-pop playing on multiple TV screens.

And I get exhausted just looking at these music videos. Is there K-pop out there where the girls just chill out and relax?

reiver, 6 days ago

@atomicpoet

There is a Korean area near Lougheed Mall.

There are a lot of Korean stores and restaurants in the area.

Many don't play k-pop on their TVs. Many don't even have TVs.

(I was there, again, yesterday — on Saturday.)

reiver, 8 days ago to random

https://youtu.be/aA0wB3d7MgE

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reiver, 8 days ago

@atomicpoet

https://firefish.city/notes/9t53s3txlqaxjtxy

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rolle, 9 days ago to fediverse

Former CEO of Twitter wanted to build a social protocol no-one can control, like SMTP or HTTP for social media. Bluesky’s ATProto was supposed to be an open source protocol that Twitter could eventually utilize, but then Musk happened and Bluesky started taking it to the wrong direction and everything fell apart in Dorsey’s mind.

A very revealing interview. I now see even more future in W3C’s ActivityPub.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

#ActivityPub #JackDorsey #Bluesky #Twitter #X #SocialWeb #SocialMedia

reiver, 8 days ago

@shreyan @rolle @gruff

I looked into how Farcaster worked a while ago.

AFAICT, it is NOT centralized. It is decentralized.

reiver, 8 days ago

@shreyan @rolle @gruff

AFAIK, the Farcaster network is made up of a set of servers that act as hubs.

The hubs communicate with each other via 'gossip' style protocol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gossip_protocol

And use it to do a form of pub-sub.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publish%E2%80%93subscribe_pattern

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reiver, 8 days ago

@shreyan @rolle @gruff

You can connect to, and interact with the Farcaster network by connecting to a hub.

reiver, 8 days ago

@shreyan @rolle @gruff

Warpcast is a popular client for the Farcaster network. (It is created by the team behind Farcaster.)

But there are other clients. And anyone can create a new client (if they have the skills and inclination).

reiver, 8 days ago

@shreyan @rolle @gruff

Most of Farcaster has nothing to do with any blockchain-network.

But the Farcaster protocol uses 3 smart-contracts running on the Arbitrum blockchain-network.

(Arbitrum is a layer-2 blockchain-network built on top of Ethereum.)

reiver, 8 days ago

@shreyan @rolle @gruff

From what I recall (and I could be misremembering) —

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One smart-contract gives you an ID that identifies you.

(You can think of it like a globally unique user-ID.)

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Another smart-contract lets you associate public-private key pairs with your ID. Including delegating.

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And the last smart-contract lets you register (human-legible) user-names. Including ENS names.

reiver, 8 days ago

@shreyan @rolle @gruff

The usefulness in the first smart-contract giving you a user-ID (rather than just letting your public-key or a digest of it being you ID) is —

It lets you change your public-private key pairs.

Which is important — as it is somewhat similar to changing your password.