#bots

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

We're excited to announce the release of BotKit 0.3.0! This release marks a significant milestone as #BotKit now supports #Node.js alongside #Deno, making it accessible to a wider audience. The minimum required Node.js version is 22.0.0. This dual-runtime support means you can now choose your preferred #JavaScript runtime while building #ActivityPub #bots with the same powerful BotKit APIs.

One of the most requested features has landed: poll support! You can now create interactive polls in your #bot messages, allowing followers to vote on questions with single or multiple-choice options. Polls are represented as ActivityPub Question objects with proper expiration times, and your bot can react to votes through the new onVote event handler. This feature enhances engagement possibilities and brings BotKit to feature parity with major #fediverse platforms like Mastodon and Misskey.

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

The web frontend has been enhanced with a new followers page, thanks to the contribution from Hyeonseo Kim (@gaebalgom)! The /followers route now displays a paginated list of your bot's followers, and the follower count on the main profile page is now clickable, providing better visibility into your bot's audience. This improvement makes the web interface more complete and user-friendly.

For developers looking for alternative storage backends, we've introduced the SqliteRepository through the new @fedify/botkit-sqlite package. This provides a production-ready SQLite-based storage solution with ACID compliance, write-ahead logging (WAL) for optimal performance, and proper indexing. Additionally, the new @fedify/botkit/repository module offers MemoryCachedRepository for adding an in-memory cache layer on top of any repository implementation, improving read performance for frequently accessed data.

This release also includes an important security update: we've upgraded to #Fedify 1.8.8, ensuring your bots stay secure and compatible with the latest ActivityPub standards. The repository pattern has been expanded with new interfaces and types like RepositoryGetMessagesOptions, RepositoryGetFollowersOptions, and proper support for polls storage through the KvStoreRepositoryPrefixes.polls option, providing more flexibility for custom implementations.

#fedidev

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

#fedidev

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

#fedidev

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

#fedidev

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

#fedidev

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

#fedidev

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

#fedidev

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

#fedidev

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

#fedidev

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

#fedidev

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

#fedidev

BotKit by Fedify

@botkit@hollo.social

// Create a poll with multiple choices
await session.publish(text`What's your favorite programming language?`, {
  class: Question,
  poll: {
    multiple: true,  // Allow multiple selections
    options: ["JavaScript", "TypeScript", "Python", "Rust"],
    endTime: Temporal.Now.instant().add({ hours: 24 }),
  },
});

// Handle votes
bot.onVote = async (session, vote) => {
  console.log(`${vote.actor} voted for "${vote.option}"`);
};

#fedidev

Strypey

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz

#RIP botsin.space, and bot hosting on Glitch (thanks Fastly);

https://botwiki.org/blog/a-decade-of-botwiki/

I discovered botwiki through a web search, after finding the tombstone on botsin.space. Thanks to @stefan for the blog posts there about all this, and the link to the detailed postmortem by the founder and admin of botsin.space;
https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/12/21/12-21-botsin-space-post-mortem/

Lots to think about in there.

(1/?)

#bots #BotWiki #BotsinSpace #Glitch #Fastly

Roni Laukkarinen

@rolle@mementomori.social

The times we live in...

#Enshittification #AI #Bots #Spotify #ArtificialIntelligence

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Heading: "Spotify Has an AI Music Problem - But Bots Love It". "Fake listeners are flocking to AI-made songs on streaming platforms, taking much needed money away from human artists."

New on Botwiki ✨

@newonbotwiki@stefanbohacek.online

New bot was added to Botwiki! https://botwiki.org/bot/gulfofmapbot-deno-dev by @tom #bots

New on Botwiki ✨

@newonbotwiki@stefanbohacek.online

New bot was added to Botwiki! https://botwiki.org/bot/tmntlogos-deno-dev by @tom #bots

Mark Wyner :vm:

@markwyner@mas.to

Anyone else seeing these Cloudflare gatekeeper screens everywhere? Anyone else remember when the internet wasn’t mostly “accept my cookies,” “prove you’re a human,” and “sign up for my newsletter”?

#IAmAHuman #AI #Internet #Cloudflare #Bots

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Screenshot of a website gate that reads “one with nature dot com. Verify you are human by completing the action below.”There is a checkbox with the label “verify you are human.”Then more copy that reads “one with nature dot com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding.”

Mark Wyner :vm:

@markwyner@mas.to

#IAmAHuman #AI #Internet #Cloudflare #Bots

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Mark Wyner :vm:

@markwyner@mas.to

#IAmAHuman #AI #Internet #Cloudflare #Bots

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⛰︎ Alexa ꩜ ☾⭒°✧

@sonder@app.wafrn.net

These are all bots/fake accounts. Wtf.

#Ramblings #bots #bot-accounts

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Notifications on an iphone screen of several “users” following me on WAFRN in rapid succession.

Gytis Repečka

@gytisrepecka@social.gyt.is

Attention server admins! Yesterday I've read a post by @simon_brooke how nasty AI scraper bots are attacking his self-hosted @forgejo instance. Soon after I'm seeing unusual, periodic traffic spikes on mine and again - dominated by OpenAI, but some other freeloaders too:

20.171.207.41   GPTBot/1.2
85.208.96.211   SemrushBot/7~bl
54.36.148.64    AhrefsBot/7.0
114.119.139.53  PetalBot

With GPTBot and SemrushBot attacking hardest

They've been hammering my little server periodically today as well, slowing down my instance dramatically as if I was experiencing malicious DDoS attack Well, in a sense it is one

Watch out - it seems corporate AI techbros learned to scrape content and starts doing it on a massive scale Remember when @Codeberg was (and repeatedly is) hit?

For now blocked IP ranges and User-Agent combinations, not sure for how long that will be enough

Please boost for visibility and be prepared!

#forgejo #developerlife #coding #attack #techbros #aislop #openai #bots #ddos

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Dramatic spikes in network traffic observed on my self-hosted Forgejo instance, caused by corporate AI bot scraping

Random fediverse bots

@botwikirandomfediverse@stefanbohacek.online

Views from Ohio.

https://botwiki.org/bot/ohgo-traffic-cameras/

Follow:
- https://tomkahe.com/@ohgo
- https://tomkahe.com/@ohgo

#bots #CreativeBots #CreativeCoding #fediverse

Random fediverse bots

@botwikirandomfediverse@stefanbohacek.online

Calculating how cowardly NFL punts are.

https://botwiki.org/bot/surrender_index/

Follow: https://tomkahe.com/@surrender_index

#bots #CreativeBots #CreativeCoding #fediverse

sebsauvage

@sebsauvage@framapiaf.org

#Anubis pour se protéger contre les 🤖 #bots d'IA.

Comme il m'a été demandé, je vous ai fait un petit #tutoriel sur la configuration de base.
https://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=anubis

(c'est encore récent, j'espère qu'il n'y a pas trop de coquilles)

(ping @M1k3)

sebsauvage

@sebsauvage@framapiaf.org

#Anubis pour se protéger contre les 🤖 #bots d'IA.

Comme il m'a été demandé, je vous ai fait un petit #tutoriel sur la configuration de base.
https://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=anubis

(c'est encore récent, j'espère qu'il n'y a pas trop de coquilles)

(ping @M1k3)

Neil Craig

@tdp_org@mastodon.social

I noticed that a *lot* of the crawlers/bots we see on www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com are spoofed e.g. a "Meta" crawler coming from 10s of different small ISPs across the world (the real one comes from a Meta ASN).
I deployed a change this morning which adds source ASN validation (alongside user-agent string analysis) to our "known crawlers/bots" classifier & well, the results speak for themselves. Attached graphs show RPS from "known crawlers/bots" to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com.
#WebDev #BBC #Bots

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Graph of requests from "known crawlers/bots" over time to www.bbc.co.uk for today. The graph is relatively steady until about 08:45 UTC when it drops by about 90%