There is no reason for a bot to be able to access or post on federated social networks if the goal is to make social media humane.
For this reason, bots should be heavily disallowed from posting content to or accessing content from federated social media.
A bot that posts sports team scores to a sports community? Sure, I guess. A bot that reports popular reddit posts? No way.
Some content bots make sense, but in a very narrow scope.
Why do you have to be so hurtful
Read the username, folks. Context is key
Hehe, sometimes people get the joke sometimes they don’t:)
I feel like we’re being followed (consistent single downvote…). Wait for it ;)
some subreddits were basically bots posting new topical research papers, which i appreciated.
While I see the merit, I digress, I don’t think any bots should be allowed for non-admin users.
I also want less bot posts in my communities, but what’s wrong about a bot that posts sports team scores to a sports community?
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What’s wrong that is for that bot to exist, the platform must explicitly allow other bots to also exist for fairness sake, it’s a bot floodgate. I think the floodgate should be vehemently shut latched and bolted down sooner than later, and I already think it’s too late.
With platform, you mean instance or community? They can have arbitrary rules and don’t have to be fair. One could say only this specific bot is allowed which we currently use, another could disallow bots unless whitelisted by the mods, or whatever.
Or do I miss a technical aspect?
Unless this becomes a standard for the fediverse. I’m going to opt-out of fediverse social media altogether. Bots have no place in human based social media : full-stop.
I understood this is the opinion and the request, but still don’t know what harm would be caused by a bot that posts sports team scores to a sports community? Assumed unwanted further bot influx is prevented. The ‘why’ is unclear for me in this case.
Or you can just block them.
there’s an option in your settings to hide bots, just use that
Man, harsh