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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-02T19:40:29.753Z",
  "site": "https://stepanzak.cc",
  "tags": [
    "the Fediverse",
    "@thisemailfindsyou@mastodon.social",
    "wikiHow",
    "@wikihow@mastodon.social",
    "explains",
    "@endingsummary@mastodon.social",
    "transect575",
    "leave to its creator",
    "GoToSocial",
    "Click here",
    "@cantspell@mastodon.social",
    "@shakespearean_Insults@beige.party",
    "@jplebreton@mastodon.social",
    "flies above user-created cities and posts a random glimpse of a cityscape.",
    "@sc2000@mastodon.social"
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  "textContent": "Wandering around in the Fediverse, every once in a while I run into a bot. It might be weird or ordinary, boring or exciting, interesting or completely absurd. Here, I want to share those I'm always excited to see again, and thus think they are worth sharing.\n\n## I Hope This Email Finds You\n\nFirst bot on this list is also my favorite. I'll let it introduce itself:\n\n> Posts (...) completions to the sentence \"I hope this email finds you.\" All content is sourced from Google Books, based on searches for phrases that start with \"finds you.\"\n\nPretty simple, right?\n\nEvery time I'm writing an e-mail, I have the urge to use one of this bot's creations.\n\nI find it incredible how amusing a bot posting literal nonsense can be, especially in an AI age where an LLM can spit out hundreds of sentences like this in a few seconds. That wouldn't be so funny though, would it?\n\nClick to show Mastodon feed\n\nMost recent posts of @thisemailfindsyou@mastodon.social:\n\n## How to do anything\n\nThis bot is similar to the previous one in its dadaist nature. It mixes up random wikiHow article headings and illustrations.\n\nWhether you try to find sense it its cryptic advice, or just go for a laugh, I'm sure it will be glad to see someone listening to what it has to say.\n\nClick to show Mastodon feed\n\nMost recent posts of @wikihow@mastodon.social:\n\n## As the Film Ends\n\nHave you ever opened a random book from your grandma's bookshelf and read the last page, or last sentence of it? There's something exciting about it, even when you have no idea about the context. Maybe because of it.\n\nIf you did, you and this bot are gonna love each other!\n\nIts father explains its inner workings well:\n\n> Most Wikipedia pages for a given film provide at least a brief plot synopsis. Using the sum total of all film pages on Wikipedia as a corpus, this bot picks a random film and posts the final sentence from its plot summary. Spoilers are definitely possible, but given the depth of the corpus it'll usually be a film you've never heard of.\n\nClick to show Mastodon feed\n\nMost recent posts of @endingsummary@mastodon.social:\n\n## transect575\n\ntransect575 is another bot whose introduction I'll leave to its creator:\n\n> When I worked for REDACTED GOVERNMENT AGENCY I saw a lot of aerial survey data from people looking for whales in the sea. Usually this includes useful information like the number of animals, whether they are juvenile or adult and weather conditions. They also usually included a comment field. So I scraped that out and this bot makes haikus from it.\n\nIts home is a GoToSocial instance, so I can't embed its posts here as easily as those of bots living on Mastodon.\n\nClick here to view transect575's haikus\n\n## You Can't Spell\n\nThis bot is only six days old when I'm writing this, but it already managed to say smarter things than lot of adults I know have ever said. Did you know that you can't spell _warm-hearted_ without _meth award_?\n\nClick to show Mastodon feed\n\nMost recent posts of @cantspell@mastodon.social:\n\n## Shakespearean Insult Bot\n\nNothing much to say about the _Shakespearean Insult Bot_ , who walks around the Fediverse and insults whoever crosses its path. Its unloved (those not starred/boosted/commented) insults are deleted after two weeks, which is a pretty clever feature that the _How to do anything_ bot could borrow.\n\nClick to show Mastodon feed\n\nMost recent posts of @shakespearean_Insults@beige.party:\n\n## SimCity2000 Traffic Helicopter\n\nLast bot on this list is a bit different than the rest. It's not funny nor nonsensical, but deserves its place more than any other.\n\nAnother project of @jplebreton@mastodon.social, creator of the _As the Film Ends_ bot, _SimCity2000 Traffic Helicopter_ flies above user-created cities and posts a random glimpse of a cityscape.\n\nBeautiful!\n\nClick to show Mastodon feed\n\nMost recent posts of @sc2000@mastodon.social:",
  "title": "Bots I've met on the Fediverse",
  "updatedAt": "2025-02-26T23:00:00.000Z"
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