What does it mean to be a bot account? I saw the setting, but I didn't know what it meant
this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2023
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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.
succeeding at misusing the label.
the first people are succeeding at misusing the label.
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)
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.
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 😅
After you become a bot account, you don't have to sleep, anymore. 😂
It is just something you can add if you plan to make the account controlled by a script. I think the plan is to eventually add an option to ignore all bot posts, but AFAIK this doesn't exist yet.
on your profile settings on the web is a checkbox to mark it as a bot account.
thank you so much!
can't wait to get more weird shit beside my name.
It is a checkbox on your settings page never the bottom.
There should be a checkbox on your account settings or profile page.
Here it is on Jerboa. Settings->'s Settings
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