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)

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impulse 4 points 3 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.

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hikaru755 1 point 3 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 😅

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nephs 2 points 3 years ago

After you become a bot account, you don't have to sleep, anymore. 😂

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poVoq 2 points 3 years ago

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.

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Rain 5 points 3 years ago

It is a checkbox on your settings page never the bottom.

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UnexampledSalt 2 points 3 years ago

There should be a checkbox on your account settings or profile page.

Here it is on Jerboa. Settings->'s Settings

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