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 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 threadthisisaaronland
@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...
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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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