@Dianora or maybe the damn bots do not respect #nobot. Many don't.

@eatyourglory @noondlyt It's a proposal to add an extension/field to the protocol to let people explicitly express consent or lack of consent for a few different types of uses of their data. Something that could very well be a thing in ActivityPub too, if it isn't already. Sort of like the #NoBot hashtags people put in the bio, but in a more organized format.

@TOrynski Mniej więcej ekwiwalent hashtagów typu #NoBot wstawianych do bio na Mastodonie

@MalthusJohn we allow bots on mas.to, but have very specific rules about how they can operate:

“All automated (bot) accounts must enable the bot flag in their account preferences, respect #nobot markers, and post as unlisted unless making less than one post per hour.”

So they’re easy to block and won’t flood your local timeline.

I’d say our moderation team is great, but, then, I’d be biased.

Seriously, though. I think we do a pretty good job, and we’d love to have you.

As you can see from https://cathode.church/fedi-scraper-counter.html they don't respect the #NoBot #NoAI etc. Tags. And in my experience, especially online, people are rarely searching in good faith, they want someone to pick at, but the bigger issue is the above violates consent, so if I have the #NoBot tec tags on my profile, everyone of those would scrape my content anyway. The other half of this is refusing to comprehend that there are a large number of people that don't want to be other's content and want to post among their federated circle and value organic, human, growth over someone just randomly finding them. While this isn't fully me, for example, anyone can see me, but I don't wanna interact with everybody, which is why I don't have #WebMentions on my blog for example. In truth, I don't want any data of theirs on my website, period, and this includes social media replies. I'd like a one way web mention instead, where they know I linked them but interaction is on my terms not theirs, but going back to the above, the above gives examples where consent is violated. Not everyone is worth interacting with online. @miturian

@GottaLaff @timbray @evan @mick @emd @coop

Oh hi! Late to tag in, but ... define "bots" - which, if they're operated properly, respect the #nobot in profiles. In the case of follow and mention spammers - being a much smaller instance, there's a smaller proportion that hit us with more people looking out for them. We're able to be more agile than the team at the mothership instance, it's just a ratio situation.

A small update on this. I will be updating the sample to make sure it respects #nobot markers in user profiles. I also revised the list of observed instances to exclude instances that explicitly disallow automated profiles interacting with users.

I will also be excluding mastodon.social, as its huge user base would balloon the sample size to unreasonable numbers (quota sampling).

Deployment will have to wait a while.