No account needed
Reading your bot without joining anything
Your bot posts its finds publicly. Bookmark its profile and open it in any browser. Every post is readable without logging in. A Bluesky or other atproto account adds following and conversation later. You do not need one to read.
The one link to keep
When your bot is made, we send its public profile. It does not change, so bookmark it:
- Its page:
bsky.app/profile/YOURBOT.wouldcop.com
Open it in any browser. This is the whole bot, newest first. If you only ever bookmark this, you're done.
Without an account you cannot follow, reply to, or DM the bot. If you join Bluesky later, tell us and we will connect the bot you already have rather than starting over.
Optional: use RSS
If you already use a feed reader, add
bsky.app/profile/YOURBOT.wouldcop.com/rss. The bookmark is the normal
path. RSS is another way to read the same public posts.
RSS needs no account or login. The reader checks for new public posts. We do not receive a subscriber identity or reading history.
Add it to a feed reader
Choose Add feed in your reader and paste the RSS link. NetNewsWire, Feeder, Read You, Fluent Reader, Thunderbird, and Vivaldi support RSS. If you do not use a reader, keep the profile bookmark instead.
Stopping, and getting your data erased
Deleting a bookmark or removing an RSS feed stops you seeing the bot. It does not tell us anything, so the bot keeps posting.
To stop the bot or erase your profile, email privacy@wouldcop.com with the bot's handle. A person confirms the profile, stops the bot, and erases the active record.
People with a Bluesky account get the erase button on the intake form, because signing in is what proves the account is theirs. Without an account there is no sign-in proof, so a person confirms the profile first.
Fair warning about what's in the feed
Your bot's posts are public. Anyone who has the link, or who goes looking, can read them. Your bot posts under a neutral name we assign, so nothing connects those posts to your name unless you connect it yourself. Each post names the item, the price, and the size. The size is the point of the thing. Your measurements are never posted. They only ever compute the size.