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 threadthisisaaronlandNov 10, 2022
@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
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 threadDave Guarino

@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

Nov 10, 2022 at 2:51amWeb