@LottieVixen @pixelpaperyarn The only good thing I know of right now is http://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Although it's not exactly a complete tutorial in itself...

@JTE @pixelpaperyarn

Ah thank you hun! <3

@JTE @LottieVixen thank you!

@LottieVixen 👍

@pixelpaperyarn @LottieVixen

All the how-to stuff I have is in a section here: https://htyp.org/Mastodon

@woozle @pixelpaperyarn you need to update your certs

@LottieVixen @pixelpaperyarn

That's the one I'm having trouble with. The LetsEncrypt installer swears up and down that it can't access the test file, but I load the URL it gives and Everything Is Fine.

I am mystified.

@pixelpaperyarn (forgot link) https://bitbucket.org/Noiob/darksoulsmsgs

@noiob thank you! also, i love that bot so much.

@noiob @pixelpaperyarn

for what it's worth I've got a bot running as well and it's also open source: https://github.com/theZacAttacks/RemindMeBot

@theZacAttacks @noiob thank you!

@magikarp support is awesome and i can always use more!

@impiaaa @chr this is a newbie sounding question, but i'm guessing that this kind of bot would need to run as a deployment or something from a server? like, not just hosting the file somewhere, but running on heroku or something right?

@pixelpaperyarn Yeah, well, someone has to run it. I don't know if there are any hosted bot platforms for Mastodon out there. It doesn't need to be a dedicated server, though. Mine runs on my RPi from home, and I've heard that there are other inexpensive options out there.

@impiaaa i think i'm just gonna go with the glitch option. looks like i've got an easy setup that way. at the moment, more important to get the bot up for interested folks and i'll dig into this as a learning project later with something less vital. thanks for the info!

@pixelpaperyarn @impiaaa

There's also a masto instance specifically for bots..

@pixelpaperyarn @impiaaa it's http://botsin.space and is run by @muffinista

@luka @impiaaa @muffinista that's exactly what i ended up using!