It would take nothing fancy to write this on AWS or Azure in the free tiers. It's a few lines of code and be more testable and easy to control and maintain IMO. But open to those suggestions.
There are a bunch of Lemmy bots on git. I haven't played with any of them. @Deatcat wrote the code for Brisbot. It makes their daily threads neatly. Deadcat hasn't been around for ages, though.
Not doing a code review here despite having feedback. A child could write and support that (said the former child dev).
GAhhHhh, platform of choice? Language of choice? Cloud based or my private local cloud? Does anyone even care about this? I'm happy just playing computer games and hacking away at my stuff.