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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If people have not ticked the show bot accounts in their settings, they won’t see this thread.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder if I should uncheck "bot account" ?

I don't know if that will cause bad things to happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you mean to say Lemmy may be able to differentiate between bot and human accounts regardless of that checkbox being checked or not?

I was thinking the sidebar could include a note about what bots are active in each community so folks know what they're missing out on. I can't see a way around honouring the option a user selects (unless Lemmy devs add more fine grained controls for users to view/hide bot accounts per each community If that's feasibly possible).

For example @lodion could allow mods from each community to create bot accounts that don't register as bots so that everyone can see the posts/comments but that wouldn't be honouring the users selection.

I had planned to ask !sydney what they think about bot posted daily threads. I think it would be good to be on the same page if they think it's a good idea.

Any thoughts?