AndreāFollow bots apparently run by instance admins: why don't you just patch the code to pull everything from other instances without the follow?
gled => Moved@puellavulnerata was thinking about that... just lazy to do some Ruby actually, it was faster hacking some stuff in python, and I'd rather implement first user choice of being 'federated' and after the gathering part...
@puellavulnerata but I did not thought it would be widespread like that tbh...