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Todd Sundsted postedOct 31, 2024
I've been thinking about the demise of botsin.space. Running a site for bots is hard (and expensive) but writing and running an ActivityPub-based bot should be easy.
To prove this was the case I added experimental support for bots/automations to Ktistec in the form of scripts that the server periodically runs. These scripts can be in a programming language of your choice. The server provides credentials for its API in the process environment (if you can use curl you can publish posts), simple interaction happens via stdin/stdout/stderr, and the complexity of using ActivityPub is abstracted away.
The code is only available on the following branch for the moment:
https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec/commits/run-scripts/
There are a couple example shell scripts here:
https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec/commit/4982925a...
I have a few enhancements in mind, but it's already proven useful as a means to periodically log data from my server host, and I'll use it, when finished, to publish release notes.