Other platforms

Now that the library is its own crate, we could make bots for other platforms. This issue serves both to track what bots exist or are planned and to discuss some logistical questions.

Questions

• Where should those bots live? Their own repo, making reddit the plattform for development, or all in this repo? (For the latter, we would need to figure out tagging and workflow though)
• Where should the bots run? It will still take a while for me to set up a working home-server. If it comes to a combined server, then centrally.

Platforms

• Reddit (custom api handler)
• Lemmy (lemmy_client) fediverse reddit
• Mastodon (mastodon-async) fediverse twitter
• Discord (serenity)
• Matrix (matrix-sdk) federated messenger discord like
• Tumblr (tumblr_api, unfinished, so also https://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/api/v2)
• etc.
• Combined maybe?

It might make sense to make a general ActivityPub (Fediverse) bot, with activitypub_federation or use one on a general platform (like lemmy), if mentions work ccross-platform.

Start with the logistics questions in this issue, then review the listed platform options and their mentioned clients: lemmy_client, mastodon-async, matrix-sdk, tumblr_api, activitypub_federation, and serenity. A useful outcome would choose a platform or shared ActivityPub approach and document where the bot should live and run; the issue does not yet define an implementation target.