Post #3270002

2024-01-03 06:42 UTC

@tristan@hachyderm.io @twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net This is clearly not an oversight. It would be an oversight if the bot straight up ignored DMs. The bot is specifically coded so that it replies to DMs, telling you that DMs aren't supported. I find it very hard to believe doing that was less work than actually making DMs handled correctly.

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@tristan@hachyderm.io 2024-01-03 06:55

@miki@dragonscave.space @twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net The service is open source. I can't see a reason that they chose to deny DMs upon quickly glancing through, but I would assume best faith interpretation until otherwise indicated. It's possible that it's just an artificial way to throttle down on people spamming, since folks will be obligated to air their RSS feeds in some kind of public venue. It'd be lovely to have a bit more privacy here, but I still sincerely doubt this is done intentionally to harm.

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@drwho@hackers.town 2024-01-04 05:46

@miki@dragonscave.space @tristan@hachyderm.io @twilliability@genart.social @birb@rss-parrot.net Why didn't you ask the bot's creator? They're a few posts upward. And it's a first cut, not a product from a company about to IPO.

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