Hey @buercher, wouldn’t it be great if we could opt in to #tootfinder by following an account? That would be way easier and less error prone. What do you think?
@user8e8f87c @fediversenews It would be great, but bot-instances refused to open an account and instance-hosting-providers refused to host an instance for a single account for tootfinder for ideological and practical reasons. See also my blog https://tootfinder.ch/wiki/index.php?name=verification-of-consent
@buercher @user8e8f87c @fediversenews Needing a whole Mastodon (or similar) instance seems like overkill. It only needs bare minimum ActivityPub support for follow/unfollow. Wordpress and other similar things support that.
@MetalSamurai @buercher @user8e8f87c @fediversenews yeah, just a bot on a service like #heroku. They even provide #database add-ons.
The only bad part now is their free-tier no longer exists, and something like that would use a lot of resources.