re my last boost -- I was thinking about how all of...

re my last boost -- I was thinking about how all of the comics I posted on Twitter aren't on Mastodon anywhere, so I made a little reruns bot (@b0rk_reruns) that tweets old comics of mine every couple of days.

Right now it's tweeting things from 2018

Like 19 Jan 2023 at 21:36 | Open on social.jvns.ca

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Daniele Pantaleo 🦥:verified:

@b0rk @b0rk_reruns
*boop*

19 Jan 2023 at 21:38 | Open on techhub.social

parkr

@b0rk @b0rk_reruns Ooo how did you build this bot? Was it easy to setup the bot account and provide credentials? Do you have a whole Mastodon account for it or is it just a write-only ActivityPub app? I’m so curious!

19 Jan 2023 at 21:42 | Open on fosstodon.org

Julia Evans

@parkr @b0rk_reruns yeah it was super easy! literally like 50 lines of Python. It has a Mastodon account and I just logged into the web interface and set up API keys.

here's its code right now, I'm using mastodon.py https://gist.github.com/jvns/8ffa5c7e1ceabecf5d23fcc6b0d18565

19 Jan 2023 at 21:45 | Open on social.jvns.ca

Julia Evans

@parkr (it runs using a github actions cron job)

19 Jan 2023 at 21:49 | Open on social.jvns.ca

Nemo_bis 🌈

@b0rk Excellent! Any chance to add some hashtags? Otherwise it's difficult to look up specific comics to boost. :)

19 Jan 2023 at 21:45 | Open on mamot.fr

Julia Evans

@nemobis oh that's an interesting idea!! like #linux? I've never really used hashtags so I'm not sure what would be helpful

19 Jan 2023 at 21:47 | Open on social.jvns.ca

Nemo_bis 🌈

@b0rk I was thinking something more unique so that one can find a specific comic if they know about it already. (Maybe this is too niche of a use case?)

For example https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk_reruns/109684622046931581 could be "#threads" instead of "threads". (I don't know how many of your titles are this short.)

But yes, you could also have some additional hashtags for good measure, like "#BiteSizeLinux #BSL13 #linux" (so one could look up by number too, and you might take over the trending hashtags sometimes).

@b0rk I was thinking something more unique so that one can find a specific comic if they know about it already. (Maybe this is too niche of a use case?)

For example https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk_reruns/109684622046931581 could be "#threads" instead of "threads". (I don't know how many of your titles are this short.)

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19 Jan 2023 at 21:59 | Open on mamot.fr