blog! “A Cheap and Lazy way to create Mastodon Bots using… BlueSky?!”
With the sad news that BotsIn.Space is closing down, I needed to find a new way to host some of my automated accounts. I didn't want to spin up an entirely new instance, or self-host anything. So here's what I ended up doing. RSS → BlueSky → Bridgy → Mastodon RSS to BlueSky I set […]
@Edent Ryan just blogged about Bridgy Fed's long-term view yesterday, if that's relevant to your considerations: https://snarfed.org/2024-11-01_53932
I'm generally a fan of the self-hosting landscape, especially if it's as simple as your server implementation. But spiritual successors to botsin.space are also already popping up for those who don't want to touch any server administration.
@julian agreed - there's room for multiple approaches.
@Edent If you're looking for a selfhosted solution I'd suggest to have a look at Hubzilla. It features to scrape RSS feeds and turning them into posts by dedicated accounts/channels (ActivityPub and other relevant protocols). Runs on a LAMP stack.
@Edent can you not bridge RSS → Mastodon directly with Bridgy?
@kajord only if you RSS feed is served from the root of your domain, I think.