I put some effort into my shitpostblog and automated everything. Now collecting memes became my calling. I found my purpose in life. It's memes.
Here's the status report.

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[–] four@lemmy.zip 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Year-old memes are gonna feel stale. You need to also automate the collection of memes.

Or wait a few years so that "stale" memes become "retro"

[–] toasterbotnet@piefed.social 25 points 2 months ago

That's what the different Lanes are for. Timeless memes with no connection to current events and trends go into the basic autoposter. Funny trendy stuff with recent cultural context go into slowlane. Gets posted more often. And The fastlane is for polticial stuff and jokes that will be old tomorrow.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I do the same thing, but with anime girls.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is absolutely amazing and all of us in the anime communities appreciate your efforts.

I hope I speak for all of us when I say thank you.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

My pleasure!

I'm very happy to have stuck with it. Many communities now have contributors other than me, which has allowed me to discover artists that are new to me in turn.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

And I hope those artists get added to the list for the bot to post as well.

Either way, just know your efforts are appreciated.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

u a bot?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Modern bots are bad, but the old school IRC (maybe early Battle.net?) bots... I'm cool making an exception for them if you are.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

The download ones?

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 4 points 2 months ago

If they also post by themselves that it's more like an Cyborg.

[–] rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Can't find source code on your website, if by any chance this would be free

[–] toasterbotnet@piefed.social 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's a bunch of ugly shellscripts and cronjobs. I have to clean it up before I put it on github or the code police will arrest me.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago

"...and there are no comments, because it's Self Documenting™"

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

so basically a scheduled posting thing?

epic asf

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago

I'm also using the power of programming to automatically create and submit most of my posts. I was inspired by @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz

It is a webapp called Moequeue with two main features:

Extracting all relevant information from a given URL (Pixiv, Danbooru, ...) + adding sauce with Saucenao (+ ...) and then running this data through a user-defined template to create the post.
Posts can get added to queues which submit them regularly by user-defined cron-expressions.

[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I wish I had one good meme to share, and you've got multi-hundreds. It's unfair