I didn't see anything running locally, just hooks to existing online chatbots. I'm not sure who is asking for that, but it feels like it isn't the users
It used to be worse. We would have three different instances with bots reposting hackernews. One guy hosted an instance entirely for bot posting from different news feeds.
And so many different projects trying (poorly) to mirror reddit content in obnoxious ways.
On the other hand, the bots reposting old comic strips get plenty of discussion and don't annoy me as much, so not all bots, I guess.
Why do people fear downvotes so much? Let people add their votes to whatever is in their feeds.
If you don't like the downvotes, you can use a sorting algorithm that ignores them. Otherwise, they are a general indicator of how people feel about content on Lemmy, and that's not entirely useless data
It's questionable as it is that being banned from a community means you can't vote on the content at an instance level.
In my experience, I would try to perform a miracle gesture, but instead I would accidentally grab a person and throw them across the map.
So a lot like that, yeah