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Status bots should publish a piece of information like "Current Montreal weather: sunny, 8C" just once, and then use `Update` to change the data as the world changes, not post the same thing over and over again.
That way you could just bookmark "Current Montreal weather" once, and it's always up to date.
Updatable information is cool.
@evan according to my - admittedly not very scientific - tests, posts updating in Mastodon but responses not, at least not from Friendica. Even if I thought they're the same.
@evan@cosocial.ca maybe, but what happens if your instance hasn't seen it before? I like the historical data. What if i wanted to know yesterday's weather, but i fetched it after it updated for today? I mean I guess the same thing applies (what if i missed the CREATE activity of yesterday's weather) but at least then i could view on remote and fetch the historical data (tediously)...
@evan@cosocial.ca hm. i like the idea of a pinned note that is updating to display the latest, with each new daily weather update being a new post as well. best of both worlds
@puppygirlhornypost2 That sounds fine. You do it that way, and I'll do it the other way. It's not like there can be only one status bot.
@evan@cosocial.ca true! but you have me thinking about something else now
@puppygirlhornypost2 I think there's a lot of experimentation possible. We're all used to streaming social platforms that don't allow updates, like chat systems or X. It would be interesting to experiment with updated data on a consistent basis.
@evan@cosocial.ca How about a banner that updates with the last 7 days? Invoking something like imagemagick to generate a visualization to apply as the banner wouldn't be that hard and most software supports banners. I mean I kind of already do a "dynamic" profile picture I have a list of profile pictures with a perl script that rotates between them each Friday.
@evan@cosocial.ca I now want to make a weather bot that shows the last 7 days in the banner damn it lol
@puppygirlhornypost2 doooooooo iiiiiiiit
@evan That does sound useful in some ways.
Not quite the same, but the Environment Canada weather warning page has (or at least *had*) a single URL for all warnings; the content just changed. It was impossible to link to a weather warning from the past, and I also ran into deduplication when posting to e.g. reddit where they thought this URL was already posted (a previous storm), so it wouldn’t let it become news for a new storm.
There are side effects, that’s all.
@evan this is a really great idea! that way all federated servers will have only one post in their database 
@spla we solved Fediverse scalability.
@evan you solved it.