@CoffeeAddict hopefully trend can continue even in face of supply issues, labor shortages, and inflation.
Neblib
joined 1 year ago
I'm going to make the main repo for this project on #Codeberg instead of Github, though I'm working on putting up a mirror over there too. Codeberg seems great for anything FOSS that you don't want to self-host, though you do lose out some Github features. Feel free to take a look at my quick and dirty work: (CW: limited tests, sloppy work - its a hobby project)
https://codeberg.org/neblib/boost-kbin-mag-bot
@CoffeeAddict I could make it run more aggressively, but I figure an hour should be fine. I went with RSS as KBin's API is very undocumented. Interestingly, I just found out this morning they also support jsonfeed, which could allow me to remove a rss reading dependency.
@CoffeeAddict that's correct. I had a bug in my scheduler last night which made it miss your Armenia post, but I ran with a wider window to pick up those and it should be working now.
The bot pulls the thread RSS at https://kbin.social/rss?magazine=Neoliberal once an hour and then for each post since the last run:
- performs a search on the masto instance to get the post federated and get the masto post id
- checks to see if it's already been boosted by the bot
- boosts it if not yet boosted.
I was able to get my kbin thread booster bot for the NL mastodon working. Mastodon seems to still have some weirdness with Lemmy posts to Kbin showing up as Lemmy links instead of posts, but the bot is correctly finding the kbin threads and boosting them, which is allowing the posts to be visible to the NL Mastodon users. You can also follow @nl_kbin_booster from other Mastodon accounts too. I'll get the code out here in the next few days but let me know if you have any thoughts or questions.
@BoobiesUnite @CoffeeAddict even if its not a full retirement hopefully at least a transition into leading an NGO.
@theinspectorst I think so, obviously only to servers that host someone following the person boosting the post.
I think this can work by listening to the magazine's thread RSS feed (or pinging the API) then using the masto api to have a bot user boost that post.
@OtherwiseJunk - since you've written a Masto bot for our instance before, does that make sense? Would you be open to adding it (or taking a PR to add it) to the Deep State Bot scripts or do you think this would be better in a separate bot?
@theinspectorst @CoffeeAddict users that want to post to the magazine microblog from masto can give the hashtag (if I recall correctly), which I think is fine. I think a really nice bot for the integration would be a bot that follows and boosts the NL Kbin's thread posts in the masto server (to hack around Masto not understanding groups).
@theinspectorst @CoffeeAddict that makes sense and probably is why lemmy.world is showing only memes and crossposts. Thanks for checking!
@CoffeeAddict anyone that gives the "Biden is too old and should retire" should get a "the TV station you watch religiously has been ran by someone older for the last decade" response.