Closed mj-saunders closed 5 years ago
The radical alt media in the uk are not very clear or knowledgeable about the #openweb and use the #closedweb #dotcons for their bulk distribution.
Like the verified by original owner :) the idea is that when they become interested/engaged they can take ownership of the account and then its no longer a BOT its them.
Think filtering would be difficult so its likely to be the whole of the RSS feed this might become a flood for popular sites such as https://www.thecanary.co we need to trial and error this :)
Some alt media has strait copyright rather than copyleft licenses. This is actually not a problem for posting links under fair use but the might be willful misunderstanding of this issue by a vocal minority.
the idea is that when they become interested/engaged they can take ownership of the account and then its no longer a BOT its them
Makes more sense now, that when they take over, the bot dies. I suppose prior to that, if they are happy with the rss bot, they can "verify" its' existence.
...this might become a flood for popular sites such as https://www.thecanary.co we need to trial and error this :)
Flood would be bad. Each bot would need to monitor how frequent the toots are. If they go over a certain limit we:
Some alt media has strait copyright rather than copyleft licenses
Surely, if we are only utilising RSS feeds there wouldn't be an issue... Possible solution: set up bot, email rss originator, run bot until originator takes control or complains. If they complain, offer to kill bot, but mention how many followers they have garnered first (if significant)?
I like both 1&2 as solutions to food problem, two is more elegant but one would work.
Strait copyright is more a emotional issue than a legal one as you say we are just posting a link. Just have to tread carefully here.
I like both 1&2 as solutions to food problem, two is more elegant but one would work.
RSSTootalizer is able to filter by hashtag or leyword - we just have to figure the appropriate regular expression...so opetion 3 is still a potential.
1 and 2 both require building new functionality into RSSTootalizer - will have a deeper look when I get a chance
a functioning bot (prototype?) is now running based on solution 2
https://github.com/Openmedianetwork/OMN/wiki/Radical-media-(BOTS)-ethics-and-practice In response:
Are you asking for alternatives to RSS-to-Toot?
Any bot accounts would have to be human approved before being created?
This means we would need an rss toot system that has a front-end and multiple users, right? This may be possible with https://github.com/blind-coder/rsstootalizer (shall check soon). I believe this may limit options unless we create custom solution. Also, would this be unnecessary if the bot toots all RSS content? That way, at best perhaps we could simply mention the bot account has been "verified" by original feed owner.
It depends how we are sourcing content. If we are pulling from RSS feeds, do we limit what is tooted by hashtag or keyword list? Who decides upon the list? Or just publish everything, unbiased from the feed? If the bot account is connected only to one RSS feed, and only posts to followers, one could argue that enough is everything from the feed.
Please can you give some examples before further discussion.