ok botting rules (subject to change, but effective immediately)

  • bots must be clearly labelled as such, and link to the maintainer’s account in the bio or something. in the future, there might be a bot label.

  • bots may not perform social actions such as: following, liking, reposting

  • bots may not post individual posts automatically, with the exception of “daily/weekly/monthly x” accounts, which can post a maximum of one post per day at a fixed time.

  • bots may not reply to posts/comments unless explicitly triggered:

  • bots must be triggered by @ mentions, or wall comments on the bot account’s wall.

  • bots should use the wasteof2 api (api.wasteof.money), as the beta api is subject to change and is designed for internal usage

  • bots should not poll my server too hard, try using the socket.io api to only perform actions once a mention message is received.

    • to do this, use a server side socket.io client, and listen for updateMessageCount events. when the count increases, request the unread message list and respond to new mention comments.

it is really cool to see all the unique ways that the api is being used, but let’s try to keep it a little bit controlled. :)

Jun 7, 2022, 6:24 AM
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Does that mean I cant make a bot to follow every wasteof user?

I was going to do that

are you allowed to possibly share accounts? I made an account for following people

as many people as I can*

do you mean like make a list

i don’t like the idea of sharing accounts — it makes moderation difficult. so please don’t do that.

also please do not make accounts for the purpose of following people. that falls under the “no social actions” rule.

k sorry

Why can't you post? That's like the main thing a bot does cc @art @live

i’ve updated the rules to account for those.

What if someone makes bots and then follows themself with them and then just abandons them

Or simply makes “bots” just to boost their own stats

Those are alt accounts, not bots

rip snake bot which never worked in the first place

I have a question, can a bot be triggered by a certain character (such as exclamation mark) if it only intakes commands specifically on the bot’s wall & users who registered?

I get it, I was saying it jokily (hence the misspelling) /lh

you won’t be able to use websocket based message events for them, and so you’re going to be polling my server really hard

RIP Jokebot and my bot which never was finished.

So what about jokebot? “Sever side” I do have a button that runs the bot and I use built in iOS features to automate it. Is it still allowed or do I need to do some adjustments?