# An rudimentary framework for an interactive fediverse bot

This code makes a few assumptions:
  - you know how to use a linux command line
  - you are familiar with and have worked with the python programming language
  - have access to both

There are some relatively hard-coded variables in the code:
  - the environment variable names, mainly

For now, this code does the following:
  - listens to the user's home feed
  - responds to specific prompts:
      - will respond to various hellos
      - will respond with a quote from a specifically-formatted, internet-accessibe text file
      - will print and apprise of events on that timeline

In writing this code, I chose to use generic python modules instead of the well-known Mastodon.py 
module - this way we can tweak the code based on our specific quirks if necessary and be less 
dependent on Mastodon. As an example: I routinely test my code against GoToSocial as well as 
Mastodon and Glicth-Soc.

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It works! Where we go from here is still yet to be decided.