Support broadcast channels in the PixelSocial bot

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It could create a broadcast channel for publishing its app and distributing the bulk of message updates. It could send the app on each new version and then resend it for each new joiner. The webxdc of each user would reply in private to the bot to process that may require updating the webxdc API.

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PixelSocial, the pixelated social network (inside Delta Chat!)

hi, you probably already noticed there is a PixelSocial webxdc app in the store, with it you can have your very own private e2ee social network with a group of family and friends, but there is also public instances via Delta Chat bot! you can peek at it without any login required, fully anonymous, there are two instances: English instance Spanish instance Screenshots: [image] [image] [image]

Requesting a new bot for coauthoring, pinned messages and to resend recent chat log in a broadcast channel

(Let me redraft this topic with more actionable wording) A publisher sends a private message to the bot and receives some help text in return. Then typing /new there would create a new channel and a corresponding private control group and invite the publisher user there. The initial publisher may invite further co-authors and bots (e.g., RSS & Atom feed reader) to this control group. Slash commands are allowed, but only for the original publisher initially (tokens are made up): /help /admin …