Bots were the first step to ruining Reddit.
this post was submitted on 04 May 2025
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But how else are people going to make multiple communities that just scrape and copy every single message from reddit?
Probably true, but there were still some useful bots that I enjoyed on a regular basis like the metric conversion bot, the invidious link switcher and the remindme bot.
I think that Lemmy will allow you to use bots only if you declare them as such which should allow users to block or allow to customize their own experiences.
That seems like a fun toy. Thanks for sharing.