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 36 points 1 month 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 24 points 1 month 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 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I do the same thing, but with anime girls.

[–] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month 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 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 1 month 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 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

u a bot?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 8 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

The download ones?

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 4 points 1 month ago

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

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

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

[–] toasterbotnet@piefed.social 16 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

so basically a scheduled posting thing?

epic asf

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 3 points 1 month 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 1 month ago

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