I just put together a small info text on the book page. Feedback welcome (freaking hot today, writing skills are slightly decreased).
Phillipp
ng0
Would GNUsocial federation, or rather: pleroma, written in Elixir, be an option to consider? I mean, just in case you see Twitter as a problem or using corporate networks as a problem for publishers.
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Phillipp
Someone pointed me at those last week already but I am not that familar with those. But as I said somewhere above, everything (or most) I gonna cover would also work for these things.
The funny thing that comes to my mind with GNUsocial is, that since you can build your own service and connect it to the network, you can easily fake everything. I mean, that would be a nice social experiment. A service with only bot accounts that trick people into believing that they are real users.
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ng0
Ah, I see.
First you would have to get some entry point, have a critical mass or just influencers of people who open up for federation with you. Since there’s an unwritten(?) netiquette for bots there, it would be really interesting to manage to pull this off. See how long it lasts until it gets exposed.
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danbruder
Phillipp
I just read this:
Great timing 
Seems like I have to experiment a bit and check what is still possible and what not.
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justuseapen
I’ve been thinking about this a lot and have been working on some tools to facilitate it. Would love to hear more about what you’ve been working on!
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Phillipp
Which kind of tools are you working on?
Right now, I am waiting to be approved by Twitter for my developer account and then I have to start building a simple botnet to find out whats still possible. The new requirements and verification process is quite annoying.
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justuseapen
I’ve been developing a bot framework (in tandem with a bot at work) to help develop and manage multiple bots across platforms (fb_messenger atm but twitter is next up). I think the architecture we’ve developed is superior to simple command <> response architectures and am speaking about it at ElixirConf this year.
See the WIP project here: justuseapen/virtuoso
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Phillipp
Interesting approach. I’ve not thought about the implementation of actual logic yet.
Also, the difference between your bot project and my botnet is that your bots should act based on triggers (I guess) and my botnet is intended to be controlled by a human (of course, there is space for some custom triggers too).
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