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

@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

@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!

@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...
@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?
@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

GitHub

@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

@simon @thisisaaronland @allafarce flocks of bots that respond to each other
@thisisaaronland @allafarce I guess I never stopped to think about what the long term parking horse might actually have to say
@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