Dave GuarinoNov 10, 2022

Is anyone aware of Mastodon instances that are solo, but with bot accounts just for the solo host account?

I’m thinking about something like A Dave Instance with a local timeline with posting bots for various nuggets, for example, bots with regular posts of:

- My reading list backlog
- Fun small coding ideas I’ve written down
- Healthy reminders (go take a walk)

Pardon the tag @gordon but I think I’m riffing a bit on your line of thinking here

Show threadthisisaaronland
@allafarce years ago I asked Foursquare whether they’d mind if I created a place for every artwork in the MoMA collection / they did / a few years later I asked Twitter whether they would create an account for every object in the Cooper Hewitt collection / they wouldn’t / the other day I realized I could do all these things for SFO Museum with a dedicated Mastodon instance
Nov 10, 2022 at 1:44amWeb
Show threadSimon WillisonNov 10, 2022

@thisisaaronland @allafarce I'm getting quite excited about the potential to create weird and interesting bots without asking permission OR forgiveness

Especially if they only do stuff for people who follow them!

Show threadthisisaaronlandNov 10, 2022
@simon @allafarce I would also like to do these things for every place in the Who's On First corpus / but that's probably a bit ambitious to start with...
Show threadSimon WillisonNov 10, 2022
@thisisaaronland @allafarce sounds feasible to me - you'd need to do some clever-ish hacking (I'd love to see how you did it) but if every place on who's on first can have a web page why can't it have a fediverse ID?
Show threadthisisaaronlandNov 10, 2022
@simon @allafarce it feels like there ought to be a way to shoehorn basic activitypub stuff through the existing github repos + https://github.com/whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-browser#output-formats + https://github.com/whosonfirst/go-reader-findingaid#http-resolver / but it's possible that feeling is just me needing to eat dinner...
Comparing main...webfinger · whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-browser

Go package for browsing and rendering Who's On First (WOF) records in a number of formats. - Comparing main...webfinger · whosonfirst/go-whosonfirst-browser

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Show threadDave GuarinoNov 10, 2022

@thisisaaronland @simon “In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.”

DesertsOfTheWest.social

Show threadBill SeitzNov 10, 2022
@simon @thisisaaronland @allafarce flocks of bots that respond to each other
Show threadDavid YeeNov 10, 2022
@thisisaaronland @allafarce I guess I never stopped to think about what the long term parking horse might actually have to say
Show threadthisisaaronlandNov 10, 2022
@david @allafarce maybe not / but what about spanking cat – https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/18382391/
Cat and kitten Figure

Gray, black, and white tabby cat standing on hind legs holds an upraised stick above a mewing kitten lying across its knee, as if in the act of spanking.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum