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Personally I wish you wouldn't. Look what happened last time. Bots seem cool, whilst they are doing work for you but before you know it we will just be logging in to watch fake accounts talking to one another.
I think you should code a bot detector, which can then be used as a basis to goad them into a confined space that they believe is the real fediverse, and then watch their behaviour.
That will happen regardless
It reminded me of when Mastodon's offical client app added button to make account on
mastodon.socialinstance that all suddenly spambot just started to appear and for a bit which for a bit, other instances blocked it until they have sorted it out.And you want to speed us down that road? You, and everyone else could just choose not to code any bots and turn the platform to liquid shit. The argument that if you don't do it then someone else will is probably true, but also not a very good reason to start the rot voluntarily.
With all due respect I think you might be a bit ignorant of what bots do behind the scenes vs the spam ones you see across reddit. They are part of reddit because reddit has basically zero content moderation policy and high karma account selling is a thing. With the addition of crypto for karma it has made it 100% worse.
My not building a bot will not stop others, we should be coming up with a community agreed guideline of what we do and don't want from bots than ignoring what happens - especially given the API docs are free to access.
The ones I am making here are to help the /selfhosted/ communities across Lemmy instances keep connected without necessarily having to follow every single community.
I'm also going to be copying content over to Lemmy and removing from reddit as we have really helpful technical info over there that will become lost.