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whats the point of follow bots even, i dont get it (still block em tho)

@slipstream ooooh of course. so does blocking = a reverse unfollow like at hellbird?

@Ludonaut I think so, and it means they won't be able to follow the accounts of anyone you boost (through you, at least).

@Ludonaut The claim is that they help instances federate, but nobody who made them stopped to think "hey, maybe this might feel invasive as shit, and might have problems when it interacts with other aspects of Mastodon type code, and might... Not be the good idea I thought it was?"

@Ludonaut federation of user posts isn't automatic so follow bots try to populate the public timeline by following

it's got good intentions, but the path to hell bla bla bla

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