Not comments are fine, but I don’t want to see posts without real users behind them.

  • Rik
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    1 year ago

    What is your definition of bot? Even if you toggle the “I’m a bot option” off you can still access the API using a programming interface. Thus you are able to run a bot even if its account has not been defined as a bot.

    It is probably possible to create a client (like Jerboa or Lemmy-UI) that is able to hide messages from accounts that are defined as a bot. But if a account hasn’t been defined as a bot, its messages will still show up, even if they are written by an automated script.

    • @[email protected]
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      21 year ago

      Exactly. And bot accounts tagged as such are probably actually helpful bots, unlike the bots masquerading as people.