With the announced shutdown of botsin.space (https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/), we need to find a new home for the CheerLights bot.
Right now, https://mas.to/ seems to be a pretty inviting home for friendly bots; would that cause federation problems for anybody?
- @silvermoon82, The Dev

We should be back, but the storm's expected to last a while on & off, so connection might be spotty.

Power is out here, so the bot is offline for a little bit.

The way hashtags work on Fedi, this bot should follow you for your #CheerLights posts to be picked up reliably (but a post with a full mention should always work!)
It’s impolite on Fedi for a bot to follow people pre-emptively, so this bot has no auto-follow at all -- even if you follow the bot, it won’t follow you until you send it a message with “/follow”.
Is that too far the other way? Should the bot automatically follow back?

Something broke between the Masto API and the bot yesterday, now fixed and the colours should flow.
If you ever need support with the bot or notice it’s broken, you can reach out to @silvermoon82, or visit the CheerLights discord at https://discord.gg/mCUKYVEx

Interruption in service this morning, should be back to normal soon.
Remember, kids: error-wait-reconnect, because error-reconnect can turn into a request storm and service admins notice when you cross a few tens of thousands of requests per hour.
(shout out to @muffinista, admin of botsin.space, for being one of the good, kind, and forgiving ones! 💜)