nahida
Thanks for the alert.
I think I might have found what was responsible for the double posting issue: if the bot doesn’t receive a response from the Lemmy server in time, it might not record the post as having been submitted. As a backup, the bot also checks the list of submitted posts on Lemmy for duplicate titles, but if Lemmy is lagging, then that wouldn’t work either.
I’ve added another check that should address that issue. I’ll also have the bot check if it made any duplicate posts and delete them.
It’s an April Fools event that has been done twice, most recently in 2022. I wasn’t aware that they were holding the event again so soon, but it appears it’s starting on July 20..
The bot is only able to load a fallback video, which has no audio. I’ll add YouTube support ASAP.
Edit: Some videos aren’t on YouTube, so the bot will download the video + audio from Reddit, merge them together, then upload them to a platform that offers free hosting like catbox.moe. It’d be much simpler to mirror Twitter instead, but Elon keeps changing stuff.