Open question for all the #bot builders: which is the better platform for building bots, Mastodon or Bluesky?

Stefan Bohacek

@ricmac @_elena Definitely happy to help put something new together for Elena's newsletter, but in the meantime, if you're interested: https://botwiki.org/resources/fediverse-bots/

And the Glitch project I shared earlier is fairly easy to use, with a few people reaching out just recently to set up their own bots, so definitely worth a look as well!

Creative Bots | Stefan Bohacek

A project template for making creative online bots.

(stefanbohacek.com)

Elena Rossini ⁂

@stefan @ricmac This is such a phenomenal resource, thank you Stefan!!!

Stefan Bohacek

@_elena @ricmac You are very welcome!

Richard MacManus

@256 @darius Not a single comment to this post on Bluesky yet. They weren’t kidding when they said Bluesky is like the Twitter experience…unfortunately, it’s like the post-Musk Twitter when your distribution gets severely throttled if you don’t pay up!

soaproot

@stefan @_elena @ricmac I think a Bluesky analogue to transit.alerts.social would just need a PDS so it might be feasible (disclaimer is that I don't know much more about Bluesky than you do, and the ability to host one's own PDS is somewhat new so might not be in older documentation).

Matt Terenzio

@ricmac @256 @darius One would hope we'd soon get a bot lib (on top of an activity pub lib) so that making a fediverse bot would be as easy as using one of the specific platform APIs

Darius Kazemi

@librenews @ricmac @256 I built one like this for myself but haven't made it suitable for public consumption yet

Stefan Bohacek

@soaproot @_elena @ricmac Well a true analogue would require the full ATproto architecture.

But I guess that would get you close enough.