I made a new Mastodon bot, called "I Hope This Email Finds You.” Twice a day it proposes a novel way to conclude that sentence. (It uses phrases from Google Books that include the phrase “finds you.”) I've been having fun reading these, so I turned it into a bot because you, too, might have fun reading them. https://botsin.space/@thisemailfindsyou/112295528875440987
1,300 people have followed my new bot in the past 12 hours, and I was really nervous that the next post it made might be boring or nonsensical and then everybody would say "we've made a huge mistake this bot actually sucks.” Instead it's this, which I'm delighted by. https://botsin.space/@thisemailfindsyou/112298380614532978
@jessamyn I'm not used to making bots with broad appeal! “150 enthusiastic followers" is more my thing. Just to balance things out, my next one is going to be really dumb, hilarious to no more than 150 people.
@waldoj This is brilliant! As a tiny feature request from my side, how about referring to the sourced book in a thread reply? After reading those, I got curious to check out the books. Not saying you should, but it’s a way to possibly even earn a few bucks for the hosting and all, via book referrals.
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