Fediverse is a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”. It is a common, informal name for a somewhat broad federation of social network servers whose main purpose is microblogging, the sharing of short, public messages.
— Wikipedia
General resources¶
- The Definitive Guide to Creative Botmaking (by Stefan)
- How to set up a Mastodon bot on botsin.space (by Stefan)
- Creative bots and accessibility (by Stefan)
See also:
Be sure to also join the Botmakers Slack group, and follow Botwiki-related fediverse accounts:
Mastodon¶
Mastodon is a distributed, federated social network that forms part of the Fediverse, an interconnected and decentralized network of independently operated servers with microblogging features similar to Twitter. (Wikipedia)
Tutorials and starter projects¶
node.js¶
- Mastodon bot video tutorials (by botwiki)
- Making a trivia quiz chatbot on Mastodon (by Stefan)
- Tracery Mastodon Bot (by botwiki)
Python¶
- Easy guide to building Mastodon bots (by botwiki)
- Making a Mastodon bot that posts random images (by Stefan)
- Using Mastodon bots for data visualization (by Stefan)
- Automating your Mastodon profile with Pipedream.com (by Stefan)
- Make a Mastodon Bot on AWS Free Tier (by botwiki)
Java¶
Other¶
See also: open-source Mastodon bots
Frameworks and libraries¶
node.js¶
- node-mastodon, a fork of the twit library for the Mastodon API (github.com)
Python¶
- Mastodon.py: Python wrapper for the Mastodon API (github.com)
- polybot: a framework for making social media bots for multiple networks (github.com)
- mastodon-ebooks
- botfriend: Manage a lot of creative bots that post to a lot of different services.
Ruby¶
- mastodon-api: Ruby interface for the Mastodon API (github.com)
Tools¶
- botsin.space (interview with the creator)
- Cheap Bots, Toot Sweet!: This site will help you make a Mastobot, much like CBDQ for Twitter bots
- Register a Mastodon App: some instances may not provide an API token, this tool will help you generate it (tinysubversions.com)
Catching up with @muffinista, the creator of https://t.co/zZ8oMQ6zZFhttps://t.co/2iLvnd9jPp
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Pleroma¶
Pleroma is a federated social networking platform, compatible with GNU social, Mastodon and other ActivityPub and OStatus implementations.
Frameworks and libraries¶
- A reactive bot framework for Pleroma: a modification of Pleroma to support reactive server-side bots
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