colin mitchell @muffinista@botsin.space

Hi friends, I'm getting a weird error here, no idea if other people are getting it, and I'm travelling so debugging it is a little tricky! pls let me know if you are experiencing weird issues

I don't talk a lot about what servers are blocked on botsin.space, but FYI gab is blocked here and will continue to be blocked in whatever form it takes

@LWFlouisa bots can be made in all sorts of languages. There's a bunch of libraries listed here https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-the-API/Libraries.md and that's probably not even a complete list

@jus10 ok, good luck!

@jus10 ok! the main goals of that rule are to minimize potentially disturbing content (for example, violence/war/etc from a CNN feed) and also just to keep the general noise level down depending on the source itself (for example, a feed that posts every couple of minutes). If you use CWs for your bot, and the rate isn't that high, you should be fine.

OK, I've switched botsin.space to require approval for new signups. Sorry for any inconvenience! I got tired of deleting right-wing spam accounts.

@bunposting are you trying to boost via the API? You might need to grant the account those permissions?

@amsterdart really sorry about that!

@FiveElementNinja should be fixed now!

@FiveElementNinja ok, checking on that

When I upgraded botsin.space yesterday, I skipped from v2.8.2 to v2.8.4, and totally ignored the fact that there was a database migration in the v2.8.3 release, which basically means that any timelines that had images in them weren't loading properly. Sorry about that!

@serindelaunay sorry about that, should be fixed now

@eiszfuchs @jeremy really sorry about that! i messed something up, but its fixed now

@loosenut @noisemakerbot should be fixed now, sorry about that!

@eiszfuchs @jeremy checking on this now!

@loosenut oh no! looking into this now

hello from mastodon v2.8.4?

@kiilas @shello hi there! i did add some code to prevent mentioning people in replies, but in theory if someone mentions the bot first, it should be allowed. can you show me a toot where this is happening?

I've blocked social.librem.one from this instance for now as it appears they've removed the ability to report users [1].

That seems like such a fundamental requirement of large scale federation that I can't really imagine dealing with an instance like that. If they eventually provide a reasonable explanation, or just fix the problem, I'll remove the block.

1) https://source.puri.sm/liberty/smilodon/commit/9cae431902a2c0ce6438c6722a3a901e279c78fc

mastodon 2.8.0?