My goal this morning was to dig up my old Mastodon bot code and try to remember how I was doing my fun little auto-tooters.
My attempt to register an acct on a bot-focussed instance has stalled. I think the instance is only lightly maintained and acct approvals take weeks or more.
My two most recent bots on the old "bots in space" instance were one that found the biggest word in a NYTimes article and then tooted a definition of the word.
The other one would build a weird (often funny) sentence with a random generator working through parts of speech. (no LLMs involved).
I had a third bot that operated in locked mode just to give me updates from our home automation system.
I've spun up a new account for one of my funbots with the sunny.garden instance which is intriguingly run by a fellow Canadian near Tokyo. Yay! 🍁
So that's there at @wordybot. You may remember my old bot which would toot a few observations weird, wacky or wonderful around lunch time each day.
Follow if you like, or not. It's gentle on your feed, and good for a laugh here and there.
oh Now you add the second part of your post....timing...! LOL
Ross of Ottawa
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