Because Lemmy doesn’t support OAuth and this is actually the only way to do it. Hopefully only temporarily. Edit: The thing’s open source, you can check that I don’t do anything with the password, I only use it once to login to the api and get the token, pretty much the same as I would do with OAuth.
They didn’t. They sent you a code and if the code matched, they assumed it’s you. I need the user’s JWT token to post as them. And that’s currently impossible without password.
Yep, that’s exactly the target audience for this. I’m doing the first live test of this on !wwdits - in about 4 hours and 15 minutes a new pinned post should appear and the old pinned post should be unpinned. Hopefully it works because I’ll be sleeping at that time.
I would like to make a list at some point with several community integrations and ask my instance’s users whether they would like some of them installed into the instance. This application will definitely go on that list! I do need to take into consideration how many resources each of the apps consume, to make sure I don’t bloat my server. But this one seems quite light. Is it?
The way I run it it’s entirely serverless and costs you close to nothing.
the application code runs on AWS Lambda (400,000 seconds per month free, time’s only counted when someone is actually making requests)
the static assets (CSS, JS etc.) are on S3/CloudFront (very small size, so less than $0.10)
event bridge scheduler is used for the scheduling (first 14,000,000 schedules per month are free)
sessions and “database” is in DynamoDB (you only pay for real requests, probably less than $0.10)
All in all the app can be hosted for much less than $1/month like that. If you host it in a standard docker container or something, it probably won’t take much resources either, my guess would be less than 256 MB RAM (probably less than 100 MB) is needed and whatever your backend for scheduling takes (Redis would probably be the most straightforward choice).
The creator of the tool is the admin of lemmings.world, and the tool is hosted at schedule.lemmings.world. So, if you have a user at lemmings.world, you can use this tool without having to trust a third-party.
If you don’t have a user there, you can create a user in that instance for the purpose of creating scheduled posts. Removing the need to trust two parties rather than one.
And, of course, since the source code is open anyone else can attach this to their own instance! Pretty cool.
Fediverse has made me click on so many weird links that could possibly be phishing links. I give Lemmy instance links to other people and they say it might be a scam phishing link as well and I kind of get their point.
I used it for example to post this very post at a time when people from US are most likely to engage (though I’m not sure if the Lemmy demographics is predominantly US, but my gut feeling is it is).
Just stop, please. You told me to GTFO and I don’t like it. Learn to communicate, please. Yes, I’m super, super defensive when someone tells me to fuck off.
I suppose the only thing is that you wouldn’t be able to upload an image to the instance as part of a post - you’d have to upload it somewhere else first, to then be able to refer to it.
For the detractors, register a throwaway account at some random instance, and use that if you want to test it out.
If you’re able to properly pore through the source to check it’s not stealing anything, then you’re capable of scheduling your own posts. The Lemmy API is very simple, it’s not rocket science.
I suppose the only thing is that you wouldn’t be able to upload an image to the instance as part of a post
It would be possible but it would add more complexity, more costs etc. I’ll probably tackle the problem when I have time, but now I’m glad that I have a version that I can use working.
If you’re able to properly pore through the source to check
I even pointed out some interesting parts regarding this in the README.
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