Follow / auto-post / boost Mastodon (or other) account

[davetapley]

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Is your proposal related to a problem?

I'm working on a bot which I'll probably send to http://botsin.space/,
and there are some Lemmy channels which might like to post the posts too.

Describe the solution you'd like.

A channel can 'subscribe' to a Mastodon account (or other fedi actor) and will automatically post posts from that actor in to itself.

Describe alternatives you've considered.

Someone can manually do it, or my bot could use the Lemmy API.

Former is onerous; latter would require me (bot developer) to have API access for channel.

Additional context

Similar to:

• Function for communities to subscribe to and aggregate fediverse hashtags #3228

[Nutomic]

I dont think its worth implementing this. As you say it can be done perfectly well by bots.