I would like to create a bot account for a community to warn about duplicate images. First thing that i tried is to create a new account and mark it as a bot, but i couldn’t use mail address i used to create my main account. is there a way to create bot accounts without creating separate mail addresses for them? i would avoid creating new mails just for lemmy bots

  • asudox
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    111 months ago

    Locked this post as it violates rule 5.

  • Pyro
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    1111 months ago

    Sounds like you’ll either have to make an email for each bot or make them on an instance that doesn’t require emails to sign up.

    Or, if you use Gmail, you could use your own email with a + alias. For example: If your email is [email protected] then you could use [email protected] as the boy’s email. It should be treated as unique by Lemmy (I have not yet checked), and all mail sent to it will automatically be tagged as Bot.

    • VBBOP
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      511 months ago

      i guess i will have to create some spare mail accounts. thanks for suggestions

      • @[email protected]
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        511 months ago

        A lot of mail providers support sub-addressing, you don’t have to use gmail. Some use different characters for it though.

    • VBBOP
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      311 months ago

      not yet, that’s what Pyro suggested to do. thanks