This stuff is user hostile. Please don't make follow-bots: https://octodon.social/media/glzbv4TCUaSwD61nxug
@odinsdream I disagree. I like followbots. They make the network more cohesive. They are needed, at least while the instances can't discover other instances themselves in background. #botmeharder
@drequivalent I honestly do not understand? Please explain if you feel up for it. Why is it useful for a bot to auto-follow someone?
@odinsdream It gets one instance acquainted with another.
Fediverse, as the name suggests, is the federated network. Instanes send each other messages to form one large entity. To send a message, one instance must know the other. That's what populates your Federated Timeline and delivers mentions.
On idle, an instance makes no attempt to know other instances in the network. The instance finds out about another instance only if the user from that instance subscribes to the user of another one.
@drequivalent Okay, thanks for explaining. So, once this bot from Server A follows a user from Server B, then Server B's federated timeline sees all of Server A's or just the user it followed from Server A?
And thank you for explaining, I'm seriously not arguing or looking for a fight about this. And I had no clue about #nobot being a thing. Where is that ever discussed? Is that an honor system thing?
@odinsdream Exactly.
I don't know where it is discussed, it's just the logic of the network. Followbots are just here to automate the process, nothing more.