As we see more and more bots on Lemmy World every day, it’s about time we publish a set of rules for bots and bot-owners.

So here goes:

  • Bots shall not be used for any kind of advertising.

  • The bot accounts must be clearly marked as a bot. Both in the bio and by marking the account as a bot.

  • The owner of the bot and contact details must be mentioned in the bot’s bio.

  • Bots are only allowed to post in communities they have the explicit permission from the community’s owners to do so.

  • Bots from other instances that post in Lemmy World communities must follow the same rules.

  • Bots shall not just be posting Reddit content.

  • Bots shall not be “spammy”, as in multiple posts per minute.

  • Breaking any of these rules will result in a ban for the Bot and, if required, its owner.

  • Commands must use the bots mention as prefix, and not a text prefix like !help

These rules will be updated when needed.

  • @dan1101English
    28•1 year ago

    Bots are only allowed to post in communities they have the explicit permission from the community’s owners to do so.

    This one might be tough for people. But yeah these rules are very reasonable.

    • Virtual Insanity English
      1•1 year ago

      Could be an issue for remind me bots, but that said a reminder bot could just PM a user…

      Speaking of PM… does such a thing exist in Lemmy yet?

      Edit… yes it does… guess reminder bots don’t need to be able to post… Or maybe they could be limited to one per OP with a clickable link for subsequent people to also get reminders?