Chris OffnerHey @jan, any chance we can get something like https://mastodon.host/@federationbot for toot.berlin?
Jan@chrisoffner3d most people I've spoken to were felt alienated by the bots, so I'd vote for letting our instance federate organically.
@jan Fair enough. I also don't like bots that "interact" with people.
Personally I don't mind one that simply posts statistics and is clearly labelled as a bot, but it's not a "must have" either.
Personally I don't mind one that simply posts statistics and is clearly labelled as a bot, but it's not a "must have" either.
@chrisoffner3d it does interact with everyone by following as many people as possible. This in turn results in useless notifications and messes up the notification timeline, imho.
@jan That's one single notification per user once federationbot starts following you though, right?
@chrisoffner3d one notification per user per bot. That amounts to a lot.
@jan Right but @federationbot is only a single bot for the entire instance as I understand it.
@chrisoffner3d @federationbot but every instance might want to run its own version of it to provide the same amount of toots in their timelines.
@jan Yeah. I mean I already have a bunch of followers that I expect to be bots so I guess that's inevitable.
But anyway, I appreciate the concern - we certainly don't *need* a federation bot.
@chrisoffner3d if I launch a follow bot, and one other instance launches a follow bot and then 3 more instances launch follow bots, the next thing you'll know is your notifications becoming useless and all timelines on all instances look exactly the same. The whole aspect of local curated content gone. If you prefer a timeline with as many toots as possible from all instances, maybe consider switching to an instance running a bot. (Don't get this the wrong way. I'm happy that you're here!)
Malte@chrisoffner3d @jan Please don't, next to the creepiness of being followed by a bot, there's already more than enough pawoo.net content in the federated timeline here. I don't think it will get better by utilizing a follow bot...
I like my federated timeline like I like my beer: artisinal (-;