@poshbot is a bot that monitors the Internet for Hive posts that are posted on social media sites. Right now it only supports Twitter with support for Reddit coming in the future. Posh stands for Proof of Sharing a term (and tag) that was originally thought up by @acidyo and OCD.
I am a firm believer in sharing Hive content on social media sites is critical for Hive's success and ability to grow.
To participate in OCD's #posh initiative, users were sharing their posts on Twitter and providing a link to the tweet on their posts. This process is tedious and needless, and one of the reasons I created @poshbot.
I believe this practice greatly increases how often users share their content outside of the Hive ecosystem.
@poshbot detects around 3,000-4,000 Hive related tweets a week on average and has directly encouraged a lot more #posh activity. It also detects tweets made on multiple front ends without the need for a hashtag.
@poshbot has been very well accepted and receives a ton of positive responses on a daily basis.
In fact, some days I believe some users actually think @poshbot is a real user.
I have heard a handful of people call @poshbot comments "spam", specifically one well known person I won't name. While I respect that opinion and thankfully there is a mute button on Hive to not have look at them, 95%+ of the comments have been positive and I see @poshbot akin to "Twitter Comments on Hive" and hopefully soon Reddit.
@poshbot has been the main reason behind the rich Twitter embeds created by @quochuy and later added to Peakd. These rich embeds makes Hive more engaging, modern, and exciting.
Instead of this:
We have:
These rich embeds can be clicked on to go directly to the tweet and can be embedded in both posts and comments. I would like to see the same functionality for Reddit links.
@poshbot typically picks up a tweet and leaves a comment within 1-5 seconds of a post. It is extremely quick and efficient despite being connected to Twitter's massive firehose feed.
It has been my goal to add similar support for Reddit and potentially other social media sites as well.
The goal of this proposal is to recover the time and resources used to develop, host, and maintain @poshbot's availability.
@poshbot has become a very popular service and has been very well accepted. The overwhelming majority of the ~2,000 replies to @poshbot have been positive.
With support for Reddit, I believe we will see more efforts to share Hive content on Reddit.
@poshbot has been in service for 6 months and was launched in September 2020 and has found over 78,000 Hive related tweets.
I am asking for 35 HBD/day for a trial period of 2 months. During this time I would work on adding support for monitoring Reddit's firehose and adding similar functionality to @poshbot as there is for Twitter. I also want to see if we can get rich Reddit embeds on Peakd and Condenser like we now have with Twitter.
For example:
I have an existing issue to add this support to condenser and hopefully Peakd will pick it up from there as well.
UPDATE: Reddit Rich Embeds have been coded up and on Dev branch (Thanks @quochuy!!!) which will allow rich embeds for Poshbot Reddit comments.
Example:
If approved, a new proposal will be made near the end of this 2 month period for a lower 26 HBD/day every 12 months. This would be 25 HBD/day plus the 1 HBD fee for a proposal that is over 2 months.
