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i saw a user with the (BOT ACCOUNT) flair.

how do i get that? i wanna be a bot account too...

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[–] impulse 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It means that you are a bot. For example like Reddit's automod or all the Star Wars or Lord of the Rings quote bots or also unit converter bots.

And it seems like the first people are already trying to misuse the label.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

succeeding at misusing the label.

the first people are succeeding at misusing the label.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Do you have to do something special to truly make your account a bot? Like give it a function it can do as a bot? (I'm not trying to make this account a bot though)

[–] impulse 4 points 2 years ago

I honestly don't know enough about the Fediverse APIs, but assuming that they provide similar functionality to Reddit's:

I would say a bot account should be reserved for accounts that largely operate automatically with little human intervention necessary.

Just like on Reddit, I would still like to have a Disclaimer on the bottom of posts/comments of such accounts stating that the action was performed by a bot. Ideally with a way to feedback the dev and a link to a GitHub page.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The main thing is that the account is mostly controlled by a computer program (=bot) making decisions on when, where and what to post or comment, rather than a human. Whether it actually serves a useful function or is just randomly shitposting is up to you, I guess 😅