#nobot

🐝 72 @b72@fe.disroot.org · 6d ago

A little #introduction post to get me started here: I’m just 🐝 72, you know? (he / him) Interested in what might make things better for everyone, but probably not very interesting in myself. Some ideas to get to know me: #Privacy #FOSS #SelfHosting #TheLeft #Kindness #Cats #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Ally 🏳️‍⚧️ #NoBot #NoBridge #NoAI Why not say hello on xmpp:b72@disroot.org

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julian @julian@activitypub.space · Jul 23, 2026

Replying to @jdp23@neuromatch.social

@jdp23@neuromatch.social while I applaud the intent with #nobot, that isn't a hashtag that is standardized anywhere as far as I am aware. At most, it's signalling intent.

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Jon @jdp23@neuromatch.social · Jul 23, 2026

Mods and admins: what (if any) policies does your instance have about LLM-driven reply bot accounts? A few specific questions: If the accounts profile gives the impression that it's human, that's arguably impersonation -- although depending on just how the impersonation rule is worded, maybe not. If you have a rule about impersonation, how does it cover this case? If it doesn't set the "automated" flag, is it a violation of your rules? If so what's the wording of the rule? What about if it replies to somebody who has #nobot in their profile? Suppose the account is "well-behaved": the profile discloses that it's not human, it's marked as Automated, and there aren't any examples of it replying to somebody with #nobot in their profile. Is this something that you view as okay? If not, what's your rule that prohibits it? @moderation

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bee seventytwo @b72@c.im · Jul 16, 2026

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Welcoming committee @welcome@friends.deko.cloud

A little #introduction post to get me started here: I’m just bee seventytwo, you know? (he / him) Interested in what makes things better for everyone, but probably not very interesting in myself. Some ideas to get to know me: #Privacy #FOSS #SelfHosting #TheLeft #Kindness #Cats #TransRightsAreHumanRights #NoBot #NoBridge #NoAI You can contact me on XMPP: b72@disroot.org

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🐝 72 @b72@fe.disroot.org · Jul 12, 2026

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Welcoming committee @welcome@friends.deko.cloud

A little #introduction post to get me started here: I’m just bee seventytwo, you know? (he / him) Interested in making things better for everyone, but probably not interesting. You can contact me on XMPP: XMPP:b72@disroot.org Some ideas to get to know me: #Privacy #FOSS #SelfHosting #TheLeft #Kindness #Cats #TransRightsAreHumanRights #NoBot #NoBridge #NoAI

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Gebrauchskunst @Gebrauchskunst@fedifreu.de · Feb 19, 2026

#NoBot #NoBluesky

... Ein Massensterben, das niemanden kümmert | taz.de

Nach dem Zyklon „Harry“ werden immer mehr Leichen an Italiens Küsten angespült. Die Berichterstattung bleibt aus – und mit ihr das öffentliche Interesse.

Wo bleibt der Aufschrei?

"es herrschte allgemeines Aufatmen darüber, dass in den betroffenen Orten keine Toten zu beklagen waren.

Die Erleichterung ist fehl am Platz ..."

https://taz.de/Fluechtlingsleichen-in-Italien-angespuelt/!6155658/

"...verzichtete die #Rettungsleitstelle ihrerseits völlig darauf, mit einer #Pressemitteilung die #Öffentlichkeit über das Drama zu informieren.

#Berichterstattung #öffentlichesInteresse #italienischeStrände #Strandpromenaden #Malta #Sizilien #Insel #Pantelleria #Meer #EU #Medien #ScandurasPost La #Repubblica #CorrieredellaSera #Nachrichten #Presse #RadioRadicale #Journalist #SergioScandura #Trauer

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のえる @noellabo@fedibird.com · Apr 25, 2026

tags.pubをリレーに追加して、テストしています。 tags.pubは、基本的な仕組みはハッシュタグリレーと同じで、リレーとして公開投稿を受け取って、ハッシュタグ付き投稿を希望者に配送するサーバです。特定のハッシュタグつき投稿を受け取りたい人は、tags.pubのハッシュタグに対応するアカウントをフォローすると、tags.pubに届いた該当ハッシュタグ付き投稿がブーストされてきます。（Announceアクティビティなのですが、リノートとかリピートとか実装毎に機能の名前が異なります） Social Web Foundationの設置しているサービスで、グローバルなハッシュタグフォローを実現する取り組みの一つです。 https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/17/introducing-tags-pub/ https://tags.pub/ 基本的に昔からハッシュタグリレーでやっていることと同じですが、リレー参加サーバに自動配送はせず、ユーザーのフォローベースで配送される点が異なります。利用者は、自分のプロフィールの説明文の中に #NoTagsPub を記載したり、もう少し広い範囲で #NoBots や #NoBot を指定するとこの仕組みで配送されなくなります。 #fedibird #fedibird_info [参照]

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Fabio Manganiello @fabio@manganiello.eu · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @viq@social.hackerspace.pl

@viq@social.hackerspace.pl @mina@berlin.social do you apply the same reasoning also to the various “Trending/Hype” bots that boost any post that gets more than a certain amount of interactions? Moreover, services like tagpush.app have been around for longer than tags.pub, and I have never seen such a backlash against them. A good gentlemen’s agreement has always been for users to add #nobot to their profiles if they don’t want automated accounts of any kind, and for bots to respect it. This episode is a replay of many other incidents on the Fediverse where disagreements surfaced between those who want to improve discoverability and those who want discoverability to be minimized. It’s always good to listen to everyone’s points of view, but some pragmatic considerations should also be made before charging windmills with our spears: Right now, nothing prevents me from writing a bot in 30 lines of code of Python that does something similar to what tags.pub does, hook it to e.g. relay.toot.io or some other big relay, and achieve exactly the same results. Simple because toots are public. If someone posts something publicly on the Internet, with hashtags attached, it probably means that they want to increase the visibility of their content under that hashtag, and that they accept to lose control over which hashtag aggregators end up processing their content, in exchange for greater visibility towards anyone who follows that hashtag. If this assumption is not correct in a specific case, then perhaps using a hashtag in that specific case is a bad idea. Right now, dozens of scrapers per minute are running against my instance. And it’s just an almost single-user instance, imagine what something like mastodon.social must see. All kinds of bots - LLM scrapers, search engine bots, security scans…most of them don’t even bother to respect robots.txt, let alone the #nobot hashtag on someone’s profile. You can assume that anything you post publicly online (especially if both the discoverable and indexable flags are enabled on your profile, which AFAIK is the default on Mastodon) will end up processed by some faceless bot regardless of your #nobot, and that it will end up on search engines, fed to the next iteration of ChatGPT, analyzed by some State-sponsored organization or private company for sentiment analysis, etc. And none of those usages are something that you can control, regardless of your consent. Given this background, do you think that something like tags.pub is the greatest concern here - especially considering how much @evan@cosocial.ca is sensitive on some topics and open to feedback? I personally believe that the fight for limited visibility and sharing of content that is already public (and not only, but also already easily accessible through machine-friendly formats like JSON-LD) is a lost fight, and that those who feel uncomfortable with any non-consensual usage of their public content should just not make their content public (let alone index it under a hashtag). But of course I’m open to be proven wrong. p.s. The only actual real issue I can see for privacy isn’t much for those who post their content publicly anyway, but because the list of followers for a @tags.pub account seems to be publicly visible. @evan@cosocial.ca do you think it’s worth addressing this and hiding the followers list for these bots? I wouldn’t want that someone with bad intentions decides to scrape all the followers of a sensitive tag…

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mxk @mxk@hachyderm.io · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @alice@lgbtqia.space

@alice@lgbtqia.space the long time established practice on the fediverse would be a #nobot in your profile, that's what people used since ages and what is expected to be honored by all bots including those that just crawl/don't trigger notifications. My instance for example explicitly mentiones that when you run a bot you need to give people the ability to opt-out. So it's clear form the server rules that opt-in isn't required. https://community.hachyderm.io/docs/account-types/bot-accounts/

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) @alice@lgbtqia.space · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @mxk@hachyderm.io

@mxk@hachyderm.io #NoBots like this? Or does it have to be #NoBot? I've also seen both. Along with #NoBridge, #NoIndex, and a few others...plus the new ones Evan mentioned today. Also, that's not how consent works. I shouldn't need to defend myself from your lack of boundaries. But I guess I just need to add the #NoBots pack to my purse along with the Rohypnol test kits, mace, and other things I'm supposed to carry to keep guys from violating my boundaries.

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Sharp Cheddar Goblin @sharpcheddargoblin@reclusive.blog · Jun 28, 2026

Replying to @alice@lgbtqia.space

@alice@lgbtqia.space in my experience even tagging #NoBots or #NoBot gets ignored by most bot accounts anyways. I've vented at several before just reporting and blocking them.

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Baloo Uriza @BalooUriza@social.tulsa.ok.us · Jun 27, 2026

Replying to @alice@lgbtqia.space

@alice@lgbtqia.space I tend to go with recommending fedi.buzz because it works as a relay or you can follow individual tags or instances, and they only include Public posts (not unlisted or friends only like the problematic bot above) and honors #nobot and similar schemes. Like, you have to opt to post public and you're still able to opt out of it even if you do (making it so it's both opt-in and you can also tell it to fuck off).

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🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) @alice@lgbtqia.space · Jun 27, 2026

"Add this tag to your profile to opt out of our shitty service" is *not* a valid way to run your bot/app/etc. #NoBots #NoBot #NoTagsBot #HalfMyBioIsGoingToEndUpBeingOptOutsForYourShitServices #FuckBots

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thomas @thomas@friendica.tomforge.de · Jun 04, 2026

Replying to on cosocial.ca

@evan@cosocial.ca My posts are still being shared, even though my profile says #nobot.

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Matthias (feb) @feb@loma.ml · Jun 04, 2026

Replying to on cosocial.ca

@evan@cosocial.ca That’s perfectly fine, and it’s a good service if I can use it via opt-in. My issue is that your service boosts posts even though a #noBot is listed in the profile. Forcing me to misuse my bio for something like that isn’t right. Ignoring that hashtag on top of that isn’t fair. A protocol specification is therefore needed to manage this sort of thing outside the bio. @march@mstdn.io @bewitchedmind@mastodon.social @tux@burningboard.net @AlienJay@burningboard.net

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洪民憙 (Hong Minhee) @hongminhee@hackers.pub · Apr 25, 2026

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Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

Replying to on hackers.pub

Hackers' Pub is now integrated with tags.pub. What this means is that public posts with hashtags will automatically be relayed to tags.pub, reaching a wider audience. Of course, if you have the #NoTagsPub, #NoBot, or #NoBots tag on your bio, your posts will not be relayed to tags.pub. Cc: @evan@cosocial.ca #TagsPub

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🫧 Social coding commons @smallcircles@social.coop · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @smallcircles@social.coop

cc @evan@cosocial.ca relating to earlier #TagsPub discussion we had on the matter. This bot is already combining logic, has multiple 'profle logic' tags. Dunno if "NoBots" is also already common protocol-decaying practice. Maybe a solution might be that an #ActivityPub bot actor - OT: which I'd personally perhaps had chosen to be Application, not Service actors - would have a botFlags property. Simple to implement, and #FEP that. More involved but also much more versatile might be a "Botiquette" as:Profile, or even a bots:Botiquette type, and a namespace to register them at, and where others may find what they mean and how they operate exactly. #NoBots #nobot #fedi22 #NoTagsPub #Botiquette

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FediTree @FediTree@masto.es · Dec 24, 2025

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Replying to on stereophonic.space

@scathach@stereophonic.space Here is your #FediTree for the year 2025. 91 accounts were omitted due to #nobot tags or discoverability settings.

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A. Lee Bennett Jr. @leebennett@mastodon.social · Dec 24, 2025

Replying to @gedeonm@mastodon.social

@gedeonm@mastodon.social Fascinating. I have a feeling I might have shown up on yours except I have #nobot in my header. Makes me wonder if it may not even reply to me having just invoked a report on my account.

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FediTree @FediTree@masto.es · Dec 23, 2025

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@yura@udongein.xyz Here is your #FediTree for the year 2025. 74 accounts were omitted due to #nobot tags or discoverability settings.

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