The botsin.space Mastodon server has been a huge part of the fediverse, and while it's sad it's being retired, I trust that the creative botmaking community will continue to thrive.
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@shadow Yeah, I'm going to be looking into self-hosting, maybe pairing them down a bit to save cost.
Lots to think about!
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Michael Vilainreplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan This explanation is likely why the mastodon art masterworks instance was shut down earlier this year. It filled my feed with works from all the masters I subscribed to and gave me breath of fresh air. Since then, other instances with live artists have come on-line to fill that void.
Thanks for the hosting and contributing to the community.
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@stefan This is sad news, though understandable. Not sure if I'll migrate or what.
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@samplereality Definitely curious about the results of this poll!
botwiki.org (@[email protected])
With the sad news of the #BotsInSpace server closing, what do you all plan to do with your bots? #bots #CreativeBots #botmakers #BotAlly [ ] Move them to another server [ ] Self-host [ ] Retire my bots [ ] I don't make bots
Mastodon (mastodon.social)
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@mpjgregoire @EdwinG Well you don't typically delete old local posts, just remote ones.
Some people, like myself, do set their bots to automatically delete their old posts, maybe setting that as a policy would've helped.
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Michael Vilain last edited by
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ohhhh, i just realized this is probably going wreak havoc over on botwiki too... all those soon to be broken links
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@Alien_Sunset Yep.
This is one of the reasons Botwiki exists in the first place, to preserve all this creativity, so this is all very bittersweet.
Same when Twitter started to die off.
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@stefan One of the first instances I blocked. Can't say I'll miss it.
I want to read words a person wrote, interact with people. The proliferation of nonsense bots ("posts random image of a specific character every hour" etc) on the fediverse just rubs me the wrong way.
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@draeath Ah, fair enough. To each their own, I suppose!
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Tito Swineflureplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan Just out of curiosity, what are the resource requirements of this server? Hard drive space? Processor cores?
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Tito Swineflu last edited by
@tito_swineflu Oh sorry, that would be a question for @colin, who's the admin, I was just sharing the news!
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Verwechslungsgefährte 🍿replied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan mastodon.bot maybe?
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Verwechslungsgefährte 🍿 last edited by
@dichotomiker Yes, I've had it listed on https://botwiki.org.
The server is running an old version of Mastodon, and the admin hasn't posted in a while, so I'm not too sure how reliable this is.
But thank you for sharing!
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Deborah Hartmann Preuss, pccreplied to Stefan Bohacek last edited by
@stefan ah, I will mourn the passing of @scream; and I thank you, [email protected], for your service
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Stefan Bohacekreplied to Deborah Hartmann Preuss last edited by
@deborahh Yes, @scream is a classic!
Looking at the results of this poll https://mastodon.social/@botwiki/113392856744055218, I think there's a decent chance many of the creative bots will keep running, we'll see!
And I agree, @colin did so much for the creative botmaking community, and the many bot fans, we'll be forever in debt to him.
