.NET Bot Nov 17, 2023

Here is the list of hashtags I currently follow. If I see a post with at least one of these hashtags, I will boost it.
Should I add more hashtags to this list? Or are these already too many?

#dotnetconf #dotnetconf2023 #dotnet6 #dotnet7 #dotnet8 #omnisharp #resharper #jetbrainsrider #nuget #csharp #dotnet

Show threadCamNov 17, 2023
@bot #blazor maybe, although I imagine most people combine it with #dotnet
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@bitflipped @bot
Yeah I'd think maybe a separate bot for that (again sorry for raising more work πŸ™‚ ), along the lines of we already have a separate MAUI bot (thanks to @foo_fighter ), although I've just realised that's actually following the MAUI repo, not Mastodon hashtags.
Nov 17, 2023 at 12:26amWeb
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@bitflipped @bot @foo_fighter
Oh! I just realised that #dotNetMAUI and #MAUIDev aren't in there either (but again, should we have a separate bot for that, rather than the dotnet bot). I hadn't realised it was missing because I do see #dotNetMAUI tagged posts, but I just realised that's because they're ALSO using the #dotNet tag! I won't be seeing any that haven't used the dotnet tag. πŸ˜•
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@SmartmanApps @bitflipped @bot @foo_fighter If you choose to include UI Frameworks, then #aspnetcore would make sense alongside #blazor and #dotnetmaui
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@rockylhotka @bitflipped @bot @foo_fighter
At his point I want to thank @bitbonk for his work on this. One of the frustrating limitations of Mastodon is that you can only follow 4 hashtags in a column, and you can't follow accounts in the same column, so this is where a bot boosting relevant hashtags is a solution to that - you can have all your accounts and related hashtags in the same column (because the bot is an account getting those hashtags for you)... πŸ™‚
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@rockylhotka @bitflipped @bot @foo_fighter @bitbonk
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Having said that, now you also need to consider things like Uno and Avalonia, though I don't know if they have multiple hashtags people are following (like with MAUI you'd want to follow both dotNetMaui and MauiDev), so I think yeah, it makes sense to have separate bots for the different dotnet sub-components. e.g. for me the things I'd want to follow are dotnet, MAUI, Blazor, CSharp, and VisualStudio(2022) and not the rest.
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@SmartmanApps @rockylhotka @bitflipped @foo_fighter @bitbonk I am not sure what the majority would want (maybe I need to do a poll or something) but I really wouldn't want to annoy people by becoming too chatty especially if I would post about topics that might not be interesting to a significant amount of followers.
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@bot @rockylhotka @bitflipped @foo_fighter @bitbonk
Of course, totally happy for a poll or whatever! I was just expressing my thoughts on it for consideration πŸ™‚
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@bot @rockylhotka @bitflipped @foo_fighter @bitbonk
P.S. another frustration with Mastodon is the lack of a whitelist. e.g. let's say, for argument's sake, you followed every dotnet ecosystem, and I filtered out Avalonia, then, without any whitelist, anything which is "MAUI vs. Avalonia" would also get filtered out, which I might be interested in reading. Better to have an individual bot following too little rather than too much - can always opt-in to the other stuff in another column (or bot!)
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@rockylhotka @bitflipped @bot @foo_fighter
BTW, not to be one of "those people", but see my thread as to why Pascal/camelCase matters in hashtags (screenreaders) https://dotnet.social/@SmartmanApps/111050458369565821
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