Moosetodon#nobot

@brainblasted I have #nobot in my profile for a reason.

If I wanted bots following me I'd be on birdsite.

Followbots suck and the absence of #nobot does not mean I wanted the bot to follow me

@merce aqui en el fediverso aprendi que si en el perfil pones #nobot los bots deben respetarlo y hasta la fecha solo uno se lo ha saltado a la torera en mi caso, no creo que en TW sirva eso ¿verdad?

writes a bot that follows followbots. Once enough have followed it it just spams 🖕 all day.

welp, the followbots should have had #nobot in their profiles 🤷

PSA: you can stop follow bots by putting #nobot in your profile. Yes it's clumsy but it's just the way things is it seems.

@rachel

Isn't that what "#nobot" is?

@vantablack I imagine knowledge of the #nobot tag isn't universal

The absence of #nobot does not imply consent

Btw, @FederationBot@crazynoisybizarre.town is pretty much exactly how you should do bots:

- Respects #nobot tag
- Has visible unfollow option
- Won't follow you again after that
- Links source code
- Links person responsible.

Thank you, @tagadmin, for providing such a good example.

@tomharris I'm just trying to voice my opinion, so that the authors of those bots are a little less likely to be able to claim ignorance.

I'm definitely not the only person opposed to follow-everyone-all-the-time bots, and I really think the #nobot "solution" is a bad one.

Tracking should never be implemented as opt-out, and the devs and deployers of these tracking bots should be aware of that.

Damn, I'm tired of opt-out "federation" bots crawling the fediverse to hoard posts.

I shouldn't need to use special hashtags in my bio to opt out of being tracked by random servers on the internet.

Why can't they send a DM first to ask? And if I reply, then the bot can follow me.

Yeah, I know I can just lock my account, but that's kinda the nuclear option in this context.

#nobot

@Ocean22 @vga_dreams no it does not feel like a bot feed at all! And there are conversations around your posts which is the super cool! #nobot

Just got followed by a federation bot

What's even the point of having #NoBot in your profile if bots won't even listen to it?

Anyway that bot is blocked now

do bots actually respect #nobot

is it worth wasting bio characters on

@Agiri but #nobot would mean no maple!

man, where would I get the characters for “#nobot” in my bio?

respects #nobot but doesn't respect declined follow requests

@zatnosk yes put #nobot in your bio

Reminder that automatons can follow me despite #nobot, just not the followbots

Would the owner of @Ambassador please teach it about #nobot ?

cc: @Laurelai