LuisMayo
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1 year ago Hi. I'm exploring my options.
My options being mainly two.
- Making my own Mastodon instance
- Complying with botsin.space and only tag the caller and the users in the convo who happen to follow the bot.
Both have pros and cons.
- Making my own instance means having to maintain yet another installation on my own. Plus storing the videos myself. Keep in mind that only in Ace Attorney bots I already maintain 3 of them. Plus several non ace attorney bots
- Complying with botsin.space is not ideal since users may have been featured in a video without knowing it. I'm not sure which one to take to be fair.
On top of that I have yet to tune the RAM usage for the bots. I have some ideas in mind but they'll take some time. My options are vertical-escalating the bot server. Which is not really expensive and I can afford it. OR reworking the bot library into working as a server which would serve the jobs via an internal websockets API. Which is way more complex but it's something I've been wanting to do for a long time now. Since that way servers CPUs could be more optimally used than how they're currently.
Since I have a full-time job, plus other things in my life, I think it will take me a couple of months before I'm able to launch it.
Again this is open source, I don't have the patent on this. Anyone can take the lead and I'll be happy to aid them. If nobody does it I'll be the one that's for sure
So I heard you are interested in setting a Mastodon bot. Any update for the plan, as botsin.space will probably not work?