Many features require bots, but they don’t require “complicated” bots. I think it would be very useful to be able to run bots, aka automatic treatment of messages, directly inside deltachat:
- Telegram-like channels (Can we have channels feature like telegram?) can be done with a bot that sends messages to everyone but discards all incoming messages
- Individual bots, like downloader, AI, text to image, voice to image, Mastodon bridge… will only take instructions from me and talk to me, they will handle potentially private data so I’d rather use something I trust than something public
For many if not all of these usecases there’s no need for an always-on computer running somewhere, I can do it from my own device. But if I really want to I can install DeltaChat anywhere and run the bot there.
There’s a huge security window to look at here because the bot should be able to basically do anything