Sidekick - A new mastodon web client, in which the user can post through a variety of bots! (still in early alpha-phase ...) (github.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by blue_berry@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Currently, there are six bots available:

Larry: Classic text posting: just post text
Spark: turns all text into uppercase
Ennui: produces low-effort posts (removes punctuation, makes it lowercase, introduces typos)
Jea: schedule posts by starting post with a hashtag and the number of minutes to postpone
Hamlet: adds a random Shakespear quote to the post
Legion: send out multiple posts by starting the message with a hastag with the number of repeats

You can select three of them and have them then available next to the post-button as a quick-select.

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[-] illectrility@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks ago

Okay... why?

[-] leisesprecher@feddit.org 20 points 2 weeks ago

"Even deader internet theory".

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 weeks ago

I can absolutely see ot being useful for companies and other organisations

[-] blue_berry@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

So basically, Bluesky made custom feeds their rhing, I thought custom posts would be a nifty idea

[-] illectrility@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

So wait, this is basically just a Bluesky client that allows you to alter the text you're about to post in some way or another?

Then I don't get why you would call that a bot. The way it's phrased I imagined everyone posting from bot accounts

[-] blue_berry@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well, custom posting can mean all kinds of stuff. Text altering is just one thing. You can also give commands to the "bot" through hashtags. For example, one of the bots postpones the post for a certain amount of minutes via the first hashtag.

For example: "#5 this will be send in 5 minutes"

[-] illectrility@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I understand the possible applications and they do sound quite useful. Scheduled posting, for example, is really cool. The word "bot" just doesn't make it sound like client features to me but that's most likely a me issue. It looks very promising, keep up the good work