With all due respect I think you might be a bit ignorant of what bots do behind the scenes vs the spam ones you see across reddit. They are part of reddit because reddit has basically zero content moderation policy and high karma account selling is a thing. With the addition of crypto for karma it has made it 100% worse.

My not building a bot will not stop others, we should be coming up with a community agreed guideline of what we do and don't want from bots than ignoring what happens - especially given the API docs are free to access.

The ones I am making here are to help the /selfhosted/ communities across Lemmy instances keep connected without necessarily having to follow every single community.

I'm also going to be copying content over to Lemmy and removing from reddit as we have really helpful technical info over there that will become lost.