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I want to avoid giving any arguments to either side of the debate because I don't want to Poison the well.

The question is should main instances of mastodon allow for bots that see when fediverse streamers go live.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ultimately, this is not about what capital M Mastodon allows but what the instance the bot is on allows. I just read through the guidelines of what mastodon.bot allows (because it came up in my search) and I think you could get away with that there. A stream is ultimately promoting its creator, i.e. a person, so you might run afoul of that restriction in their rules. I'm not sure. And as I said, it would depend more on the instance the bot is on.

In general, I would support allowing this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

TIL mastodon.bot exists as a home for mastodon bots. Thanks!

[–] remotelove 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Short form social media is basically a free-for-all. Hell, it functions more as a notification service than something like Lemmy.

Give my point of view expressed, a notification from anything is fine, bot or not. As long as the notifications are reasonable and easy for other users to block, sure. Knock yourself out. Have your bot notify us for whatever you want, with the understanding that I could just turn it off at anytime.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I should clarify that the bit is a mastodon account so you'd have to follow it.

[–] remotelove 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Excuse my ignorance of Mastodon then as I have only really used it a few times.

If you follow an account, do you have the option to disable notifications from that account?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah you can mute an account so you get no notification on it