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we like privacy respect on the fediverse
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in relation to this: https://programming.dev/post/177829
edit: the problem isn't so much about a bot that uses AI but about not having an opt-out option
The tldr bots are good because otherwise people will base their comment entirely on the headline. Every other bot can take off
There's lots of useful bots besides just summarizers. Reminder bots can be great. Some linkifying bots are also useful (like Marv in r/SCP). Bots can detect malicious spam bots. Subs like AITA use bots to tally up user votes. There's bots for moderation actions, too.
But we really could use a way to get rid of the absolutely useless bots. We don't need terrible spelling correcting bots, a bot whose sole purpose is to tell people not to put "the" in front of "Ukraine", or a bot that lectures people on AMP links.
Posting the non AMP link (I guess without the lecture, is what I'm getting at) is all good though
I mostly liked the Character Bots in LOTR or other sub specific bots.
Sitewide bots were more annoying because they were not tailored to the community.
What did !remindme ever do to you eh?
Yeah I just don't want people to completely ban any kind of automation on here because there's good examples. Unit converters from freedom units to metric is another good example. And personally I enjoyed the fake bots like BobbyB and elonbot that made jokes all the time, but I'm not gonna die on that hill if the community at large wants to keep them away.