Some accounts on here are marked as "Automated" or "Bot".

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

Some accounts on here are marked as "Automated" or "Bot". This is not a bad sign! These are generally good and useful bots

These labels are added by the bot's owner to let people know there isn't a human responding to replies. More info at:

️ https://fedi.tips/why-are-some-accounts-marked-bot-on-mastodon

You can find lots of useful weather bots at https://fedimeteo.com

Some bots are interactive, for example @votechess lets people play a collaborative game of chess. @dungeons is another popular interactive bot.

#FediTips

[iamdannyboling@mstdn.social]

@FediTips

Thanks for the info (as always). Do you know if there's a list of Mastodon bots, hopefully with short descriptions for each? I would definitely follow helpful bots if I knew where to find them.

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@IAmDannyBoling

There are some on the @FediFollows website at https://fedi.directory/tag/bots

[botwiki@mastodon.social]

@FediTips @IAmDannyBoling @FediFollows There's also https://botwiki.org/bots/fediverse-bots/ and @botwikirandomfediverse !

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

@botwiki

Ahhh, fantastic! I'll add this to the site!

Thank you for maintaining this list

[feditips@social.growyourown.services]

p.s. The good people at @botwiki have a categorised list of fun and useful Fediverse bots at:

️ https://botwiki.org/bots/fediverse-bots