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How to Recreate an Ask Ubuntu Bot
Are people actually actively following these bots as well? Or do they just get them passing by in the federated and home timelines? Yeah, it's interesting because the Ubuntu bugs is the least useful one and the least followed. The Ask Ubuntu bot has 108 followers and 2000 posts. I personally just click through sometimes and just answer a question. If I see something interesting, go by. It extracts the tags out of the post from Ask Ubuntu and turns those into hashtags on Mastodon. So there are some common ones like Snap and 1404 and stuff like that. And another, you know, words like Linux printing. Those things get used.
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