I don't know who needs to hear this today, but the #fediverse does not need you to operate a bot account to repost content from commercial news outlets.

[gcvsa@mstdn.plus]

I don't know who needs to hear this today, but the #fediverse does not need you to operate a bot account to repost content from commercial news outlets.

They have the ability to do that themselves, and I am happy to follow them, if they do, and if they post good posts.

But your bot? Yours I just block.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@gcvsa That's fair I do follow some news bots e.g. from specific outlets, so I don't have to visit their sites or corpo SoMe to get the headlines - but I've sequestered them off out of my main feed & into a list