This stuff is user hostile. Please don't make follow-bots: https://octodon.social/media/glzbv4TCUaSwD61nxug

@odinsdream I disagree. I like followbots. They make the network more cohesive. They are needed, at least while the instances can't discover other instances themselves in background. #botmeharder

@drequivalent I honestly do not understand? Please explain if you feel up for it. Why is it useful for a bot to auto-follow someone?

@odinsdream It gets one instance acquainted with another.
Fediverse, as the name suggests, is the federated network. Instanes send each other messages to form one large entity. To send a message, one instance must know the other. That's what populates your Federated Timeline and delivers mentions.
On idle, an instance makes no attempt to know other instances in the network. The instance finds out about another instance only if the user from that instance subscribes to the user of another one.

@odinsdream So, in order to make your instance known to other instances, people from your instance must follow as many people from as many instances as possible. The more instances know each other, the more cohesive and transparent the whole network will be.

@drequivalent this is still not really making any sense to me. but thanks for explaining. and i still don't think followbots as implemented are user-friendly at all.

@odinsdream Oi, on design - would be awesome to see it as Elementary-style app. Try and read this, it may turn out useful
https://elementary.io/docs/human-interface-guidelines

@odinsdream Ha sorry. Wrong mention

@drequivalent that was me. also not a guy.

@odinsdream That was for @tindall You are writing a client too?