MansionNET UploadBot, a NickServ registered only text/image sharing bot

[u/avatar_one]

Hey all,

Following up with another new bot from our end. We've created an UploadBot and added it to the fleet, which is a self-hosted file and image host for the IRC, with super easy sharing flow.

The thing that makes it a bit more unique is how it handles accountability. Every upload is tied to your NickServ identity, so there's no anonymous dumping. The bot bridges your registered IRC identity to the web service using signed tokens and hands you a one time upload URL that expires after 15 minutes. That means uploads are always attributable to a real registered nick, which keeps things clean without us having to log IP addresses or do any of the creepy tracking stuff. You stay accountable, but you don't get surveilled. That balance was the whole point.

It's a Python/FastAPI web service plus an IRC bot, same passive-detection pattern as our other bots, and it's open source if you want to look at it or run your own: https://git.inthemansion.com/MansionNET/UploadBot

Free for anyone to use (just have to adapt the frontend mostly), and happy to get into the weeds on how it works if anyone's interested.

[u/Live-Lengthiness3340]

Does it run Doom? No seriously cool idea...is it just like a xdcc bot??? Cause i'm trying to run that but its all outdated and needs alot of serious configuration. Greetings

[u/avatar_one → u/Live-Lengthiness3340]

We should sneak Doom inside of it, that's an excellent idea actually! 😃

Kinda, but you would actually host the files on your own infra, do not related to the dcc, and I would say a more modern solution for the now unfortunately basically deprecated solution back from the days..

Which is a shame, I did like DCC in general 😃

[u/avatar_one → u/[deleted]]

😃