please stop using the “bot” account tag if the account is not automated. you are totally free to identify as a bot, robot, machine, etc.; i’m half a cat, i would know. but the bot tag is not intended for sentient beings (of any kind), it is strictly intended to identify fedi accounts that are run by an automated system (almost always a computer program) instead of a sentient being. it is important for many people to be able to identify automated accounts for various technical and non-technical reasons. you using the bot tag muddies the waters and makes such identification more difficult. many interfaces are starting to use “automated” instead of “bot” since that’s a more accurate term, but many don’t. i’d like if everyone had a bit more awareness of the fact that the former is the more accurate description and purpose of the tag and it should be used as such.

now go and make up your own role badges for sentient robots, that’s rad as fuck and i encourage it :neocat_3c: