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The Lemmy.world TOS requires that any bot account be set as such in their profile, and that any community they post to requires approval first.

Generically speaking, I won't be approving any. What I mean by that is any bot request is going to need a valid and real reason for its use here, which I would then bring to the community to make that choice like I did for the rules discussion threads. I wish there were a better way than a basic upvote or downvote system for feedback, but its what we've got so its what I'll use.

I have not posted about any new bots since I took over here a few months ago, so no new bots should be considered as having community approval.

If you see them, please just report and I'll get to it as soon as possible. The current one seems to just be getting new accounts all over the fediverse, and tacking their home instance onto the end. They are banned, but I'll have to ban again as things come up. I'll bring this up to the lemmy.world admins as well. This also goes for any other new bot that begins flooding the community.

Thanks!

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