Yeah I can get that from my weather app. That’s probably why the admin doesn’t want it to be discoverable.
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catloaf@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I’m really not sure that a microblogging platform is the right channel for sunrise and sunset times in the first place. Personally if I wanted that info, I’d go look up a table. But you’re always welcome to host your own instance, if you want to (ab)use the protocol like this.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 week ago
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
Good Lord, you must be fun at parties.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Eh? They were flooding the local timeline with bot posts for sunset etc times for many different locations, meaning likely several bot posts per hour. That would get them banned on pretty much any instance.
By their words: “Not worth the effort” to run your own instance my ass… don’t abuse a gratis public service with bot spam.
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
You really made me look…
There are 98 bots, each one was posting exactly once a day. That’s an average of one post every 14 minutes.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Not one for sunset and another one for dawn? But ok, I overestimated it a bit, but 4 posts per hour is still bot spam.
rglullis@communick.news 1 week ago
How many of these bots existed on Twitter and were used to illustrate the point that the API being open was important to have a thriving ecosystem?
But this is not even why I am calling out the parent. I just find it ridiculous that OP brings a whole list of more-than-reasonable issues with Mastodon (and by extension the Fediverse):
- Federation does not work (Federation is wrong structure for decentralized social media)
- Account migration does not work (Coupling of identity to server)
- Direct messaging does not work (Messages are not really private, and Mastodon pretends to make them so)
- Content moderation does not work (Relates to #1)
- **Live feeds do not work **(Much like “browsing by all” in Lemmy, it’s a really bad execution to try to solve the issue of content discovery)
- Mastodon development does not work (Slow, opinionated on the “wrong” things, failing to respond to user’s requests)
- Mastodon culture does not work (The stereotypical user is just anti-everything, most instances are full of school-hall monitors, reject anything that resembles mainstream and end up becoming incredibly reactionary, boring people cross-playing as armchair revolutionaries)
And to all of that, the first response that we find here is some completely irrelevant pontification about how one “shouldn’t be using a microblog to send notifications”?
Like, really? This is the type of things that we should be concerned about?
What’s next?
People shouldn’t write a “match threader” bot because “following sports updates is not the place for a discussion forum”?
For crying out loud, have we completely forgotten how to have fun here?
poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
The bot issue is what both OP mainly quoted and also what the author of the article is complaining about as the issue that got them to quit. So you are wondering that people point out that this bot use is clear service abuse?
It only works on Twitter, because Twitter immediatly hides those bots via their algorithm, which apparently is also bad when the Mastodon instance admin suggested something very similar?
As for the rest of the article… mostly nonsense or rather a fundamental misunderstanding what ActivityPub wants to achive. Only point 3 and 6 have any merit and 6 can be easily solved by using another fediverse software.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Blocked for bot spam
jonathan@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
People who use that phrase lack any sense of irony or self awareness.
heavyboots@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Yeah this seems like a weird use case for Mastodon to me too. Also, the entire point of Mastodon is that no one entity can control it all. Switching to BlueSky is basically just falling straight back into the trap where someone can buy it out and repurpose it as a disinformation machine again. I’m not saying ActivityPub is perfect, mind you. Just that it sucks less (for me) than the alternative.