Knowing Presence of Awareness

The witscord mastodon bot, or "masto bot", posts messages from witscord to an account at https://mas.to/@witscord.

History

Raz got banned and we wanted to talk to him. Thus the masto bot was born.

Emoji reactions

Five elephant (🐘) reactions to a message, including a reaction by the original user who posted the message, posts the message to Mastodon. If the message is a link to another post on the fediverse, the bot will boost the original post instead of just posting a URL to it.

Every mammoth (🦣) reaction subtracts one from the elephant count. This is to prevent hiveminding and bad posts.

Five ox (🐂) reactions to a message does nothing of note.

User Commands

• • masto!search <text>** searches for posts containing the given text on the server.

• • masto!random** displays a random post made by the bot.

• • masto!account** shows the URL of the account.

Moderator Commands

• • masto!enable** enables the masto bot.

• • masto!disable** disables the masto bot.

• • masto!channel <channel>** changes where incoming masto posts get sent. At the moment, this is the #casual channel.