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This seems wasteful since I'd want to just include a summary in my posts, maybe if admins/moderators used bots to make regularly occurring posts or something but even then, most of the time the post content is written by a human.
With that in mind, people who wish to create bots can label their accounts as bots and identify themselves through the user agent when not using an account at all.
The bots don't necessarily have to post/comment, getting rid of all bots doesn't exactly seem productive.
While I understand the use cases of bots that provide some sort of utility or post helpful information, I lean towards having no bots. Reddit was festering with bots of all stripes - mostly memes - and it was kind of unbearable.
I personally long for a community that features strictly human-to-human conversation and interaction.
I'm aware that this opinion will likely be in the minority, given how tech-centric the fediverse in general is, but that's my thought on the matter.
I'm here for the people. I don't want to be a part of a community that is bots talking with bots, which is what I felt like places like Reddit had become. When I found Beehaw, it was a breath of fresh air to actually see intelligent conversations between real people. I'd hate to see that be lost.
I'm sure someone's got some bots on Lemmy that are actually decent, but I haven't seen them yet. The bots I've seen have just been spamming copies of reddit posts or other articles. I block them, and I usually block the communities they spam.
I like the bot that provides a piped link for YouTube.
I actually kinda really dislike that one, I don't understand why it would be used rather than a link redirector extension in your browser.
It's really useful. Especially for resharing with others outside of Lemmy.
I feel similarly for that Reddit bot that strips Amp links and posts a link explaining why Google's amp links are terrible for the Internet.
Bots = spam as far as I'm concerned.
bots are kinda boring
If we accept bots, I prefer those that can be summoned by the user, as it happens on Discord. If we accept bots either summoned or not by the user, they must be identified as such on their profiles.
But in no way I'll accept bots that pretend to be a human user or that can interact in the same way a human user can, neither commenting nor posting nor voting.
Personally I haven't seen any bots on here yet. If they become problematic or if there are too many then I would be pro-restricting them.
I do like the novelty bots you can get though, they can be fun
Auto tldr is really cool, this is a bot I support
The auto tldr bot has now been disabled as per the decision of Beehaw. Contact your favorite community mods if you'd like to change that.
Do. Not. Want.
in others instances I've seen some ones that provide links to alternative front ends to social media sites, for example piped in the case of youtube