I want to avoid giving any arguments to either side of the debate because I don’t want to Poison the well.
The question is should main instances of mastodon allow for bots that see when fediverse streamers go live.
I want to avoid giving any arguments to either side of the debate because I don’t want to Poison the well.
The question is should main instances of mastodon allow for bots that see when fediverse streamers go live.
Ultimately, this is not about what capital M Mastodon allows but what the instance the bot is on allows. I just read through the guidelines of what mastodon.bot allows (because it came up in my search) and I think you could get away with that there. A stream is ultimately promoting its creator, i.e. a person, so you might run afoul of that restriction in their rules. I’m not sure. And as I said, it would depend more on the instance the bot is on.
In general, I would support allowing this.