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Sidekick - A new mastodon web client, in which the user can post through a variety of bots! (still in early alpha-phase ...) (github.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Currently, there are six bots available:

Larry: Classic text posting: just post text
Spark: turns all text into uppercase
Ennui: produces low-effort posts (removes punctuation, makes it lowercase, introduces typos)
Jea: schedule posts by starting post with a hashtag and the number of minutes to postpone
Hamlet: adds a random Shakespear quote to the post
Legion: send out multiple posts by starting the message with a hastag with the number of repeats

You can select three of them and have them then available next to the post-button as a quick-select.

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[–] illectrility 32 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Okay... why?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago

"Even deader internet theory".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

I can absolutely see ot being useful for companies and other organisations

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So basically, Bluesky made custom feeds their rhing, I thought custom posts would be a nifty idea

[–] illectrility 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So wait, this is basically just a Bluesky client that allows you to alter the text you're about to post in some way or another?

Then I don't get why you would call that a bot. The way it's phrased I imagined everyone posting from bot accounts

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well, custom posting can mean all kinds of stuff. Text altering is just one thing. You can also give commands to the "bot" through hashtags. For example, one of the bots postpones the post for a certain amount of minutes via the first hashtag.

For example: "#5 this will be send in 5 minutes"

[–] illectrility 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I understand the possible applications and they do sound quite useful. Scheduled posting, for example, is really cool. The word "bot" just doesn't make it sound like client features to me but that's most likely a me issue. It looks very promising, keep up the good work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe so you don't have to look at replies?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Currently not. But it will be added

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Alive internet theory

The bots are secretly humans

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, this is kind of everything that most fedi communities I know about do not want.

Cool that you built a thing and all and maybe there is a use for it but I'm gonna have to respectfully downvote.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

And bot posting is a good idea, why??