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Daily Thread: It's Thor's Day! 22/06/2023

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Currently thinking of making a bot to notify people of VicPol Search areas, as Elon has broken the Twitter API, breaking the current bot.
What would be the best channel though? Facebook? Email List? Lemmy?
- Do you know how to make a bot on Lemmy? Because my search for how to automate a daily thread post is going very slowly and I could really do with a hand from someone who knows what they are doing.
  
  I'm more than happy to help, but I would need to check the docs first, and I'm somewhat busy.
  Were you planning on using one of the node JS bots on github?
  
  Busier than a cat burying shit in concrete.
  
  Pretty much, but I am basically still at the point of working out which programs I need to install to run anything like that, so I am a long way off. I expect it to take a while to figure out which is ok, but I am also a bit worried about whether I am heading in the right direction - I don't want to invest hours/days/weeks learning to use JS and find out I'm going in the wrong direction.
  I have the code from GitHub, I have found a lemmy-js client on join-lemmy.org, and have a tutorial on LinkedIn Learning that starts with what programs to install to use JS through to basic programming. If I put those together am I likely to end up in roughly the right place to make an automated thread?
  
  That is a good starting point, for getting a bot running locally. I'm more than happy to look at the JS as well.
  I would also be looking for somewhere with free NodeJS PAAS hosting as well (heroku / vercel), so that the host computer doesn't need to be kept on all the time.
  
  Fabulous, good to know I am heading in the right direction. Step 1: create automated thread. Step 2: recreate hidden penis bot Step 3: create bot army and take over the world. I got this.

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