@CoffeeAddict guess we'll see another kbin/lemmy + masto bump soon.

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The Omaha Zoo.

If I had to pick more:
* Cost of living + employment opportunities
* General niceness of most people
* Four seasons even if three get snow
* Easy airport access (in eastern Nebraska)
* Amazing natural spots of beauty that aren't packed when you find them
* Our unicameral + officially nonpartisan legislative system (even if it needs work + more Cavanaughs)
* Our split electoral votes
* Our cities punch above their population weight in amenities

@CoffeeAddict I really hope he gets the boot next election cycle for being so anti-military. There are plenty of other republicans in Alabama that should be favorable enough on other GOP viewpoints that could primary him, or if we get really good luck, a moderate dem win?

@CoffeeAddict with MTG throwing in another speaker recall, and the majority down to only 217 now, I wonder if we're going to see the third Speaker fight this term.

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@CoffeeAddict https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyoming_Rule

@theinspectorst CAFE just needs to be revised to not exempt trucks and have weight/size penalties.. Compact cars can tow a decent amount now, work vans are better for many trades, and there are existing ag programs and zoning statuses that can ID farmers if we want to throw them a bone.

I think this can work by listening to the magazine's thread RSS feed (or pinging the API) then using the masto api to have a bot user boost that post.

@OtherwiseJunk - since you've written a Masto bot for our instance before, does that make sense? Would you be open to adding it (or taking a PR to add it) to the Deep State Bot scripts or do you think this would be better in a separate bot?

@CoffeeAddict mostly matches urban / rural divide but some outliers like El Paso ate interesting.

@Neoliberal I was looking into https://kbin.social/... today and I was wondering if anyone here has been able to try https://kbin.social/d/mastodo.neoliber.al to see if it will pull in the Neoliberal Masto instance's kbin interaction feed? I'm thinking as I'm not a kbin.social user its not kicking off a subscribe step and never storing the domain in its domain list even though several users here have posted to there. https://kbin.social/d/mastodon.social gives what I would expect, but for our server.

@theinspectorst @CoffeeAddict that makes sense and probably is why lemmy.world is showing only memes and crossposts. Thanks for checking!

I was able to get my kbin thread booster bot for the NL mastodon working. Mastodon seems to still have some weirdness with Lemmy posts to Kbin showing up as Lemmy links instead of posts, but the bot is correctly finding the kbin threads and boosting them, which is allowing the posts to be visible to the NL Mastodon users. You can also follow @nl_kbin_booster from other Mastodon accounts too. I'll get the code out here in the next few days but let me know if you have any thoughts or questions.

@CoffeeAddict I could make it run more aggressively, but I figure an hour should be fine. I went with RSS as KBin's API is very undocumented. Interestingly, I just found out this morning they also support jsonfeed, which could allow me to remove a rss reading dependency.

@CoffeeAddict that's correct. I had a bug in my scheduler last night which made it miss your Armenia post, but I ran with a wider window to pick up those and it should be working now.
The bot pulls the thread RSS at https://kbin.social/rss?magazine=Neoliberal once an hour and then for each post since the last run:

• performs a search on the masto instance to get the post federated and get the masto post id
• checks to see if it's already been boosted by the bot
• boosts it if not yet boosted.

I'm going to make the main repo for this project on #Codeberg instead of Github, though I'm working on putting up a mirror over there too. Codeberg seems great for anything FOSS that you don't want to self-host, though you do lose out some Github features. Feel free to take a look at my quick and dirty work: (CW: limited tests, sloppy work - its a hobby project)
https://codeberg.org/neblib/boost-kbin-mag-bot

Monthly reminder: while viewing in KBin will give the best experience, you can also interact with this Kbin Magazine in Lemmy, Mastodon, and other Fediverse applications too.

If the app you use doesn't support ActivtyPub groups, following the magazine will only subscribe you to the Kbin's microblogging section. If you want to follow the thread posts, you can get access to them by following the @nl_kbin_booster bot.

While there aren't any specific rewards yet here, it'd be a good way to advertise this magazine there with the DT sticky, sidebar, or banner rewards and kill mosquitos at the same time!

Or if you don't care about spreading this magazine, you can still kill some mosquitos and save some lives!