GitHub - bluebbberry/Sidekick: Bot-centered Fediverse app. Users post ONLY through bots. On sign-up, every user chooses a bot (or Sidekick) and can then customize user experience and execute commands with it by posting to the bot. The post prompt is made customizable and elevated in this sense (fedi-app with custom-prompts).
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Bot-centered Fediverse app. Users post ONLY through bots. On sign-up, every user chooses a bot (or Sidekick) and can then customize user experience and execute commands with it by posting to the bo...

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.

    • stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

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

    • blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

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

      • illectrility@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        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

        • blue_berry@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          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@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            5·
            3 days 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

  • Fuzzypyro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    3 days 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.