@darius @stpaultim This really is important here. I think it's reasonable to accept that consent and opting-in are significantly higher values here, and that this is meant to be an environment where every user and every instance is its own gatekeeper.

The truth is that I might be okay with someone's followbot if they (1) Told me what it was before deploying it on me (2) Explained what the benefit to me or the Fedi is (3) Showed me they had a process for stewardship of my data