From a76e81ee8bcbad87c9eb58cdb25452cae65bd0c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Star Rauchenberger Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:09:58 +0000 Subject: Bot is now a Mastodon bot --- README.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'README.md') diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index e999a08..2b9a588 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ # difference -difference is a Twitter bot that generates false dichotomies. It finds some type of thing, compares two different images of that type of thing, and then makes up a binary that explains why they are different. The bot parodies the black-and-white way that society tends to put things into dichotomies; for example, the gender binary. The original inspiration for this bot was the following tweet: +difference is a Mastodon bot that generates false dichotomies. It finds some type of thing, compares two different images of that type of thing, and then makes up a binary that explains why they are different. The bot parodies the black-and-white way that society tends to put things into dichotomies; for example, the gender binary. The original inspiration for this bot was the following tweet:

I label increasingly nonsensical images with ‘UI’ and ‘UX’ and hope they get used in serious presentations pic.twitter.com/tDJgRp6CO5

— Sebastiaan de With (@sdw) March 15, 2016
-It tweets a new binary every hour. It uses [verbly](https://github.com/hatkirby/verbly) to pick nouns, pictures, and antonyms; [GraphicsMagick](http://www.graphicsmagick.org/) to create the output images; [YAMLcpp](https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp) to read a configuration file; and my C++ Twitter library [libtwitter++](https://github.com/hatkirby/libtwittercpp) to send the status updates to Twitter. +It tweets a new binary every hour. It uses [verbly](https://github.com/hatkirby/verbly) to pick nouns, pictures, and antonyms; [GraphicsMagick](http://www.graphicsmagick.org/) to create the output images; [YAMLcpp](https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp) to read a configuration file; and [mastodonpp](https://github.com/tastytea/mastodonpp) to send the status updates to Mastodon. -The canonical difference handle is [@differencebot](https://twitter.com/differencebot). +The canonical difference handle is [@difference@beppo.online](https://beppo.online/@difference) (previously [@differencebot](https://twitter.com/differencebot)). -- cgit 1.4.1