What is your definition of bot? Even if you toggle the “I’m a bot option” off you can still access the API using a programming interface. Thus you are able to run a bot even if its account has not been defined as a bot.
It is probably possible to create a client (like Jerboa or Lemmy-UI) that is able to hide messages from accounts that are defined as a bot. But if a account hasn’t been defined as a bot, its messages will still show up, even if they are written by an automated script.
What is your definition of bot? Even if you toggle the “I’m a bot option” off you can still access the API using a programming interface. Thus you are able to run a bot even if its account has not been defined as a bot.
It is probably possible to create a client (like Jerboa or Lemmy-UI) that is able to hide messages from accounts that are defined as a bot. But if a account hasn’t been defined as a bot, its messages will still show up, even if they are written by an automated script.
Exactly. And bot accounts tagged as such are probably actually helpful bots, unlike the bots masquerading as people.