I want to avoid giving any arguments to either side of the debate because I don’t want to Poison the well.
The question is should main instances of mastodon allow for bots that see when fediverse streamers go live.
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Ultimately, this is not about what capital M Mastodon allows but what the instance the bot is on allows. I just read through the guidelines of what mastodon.bot allows (because it came up in my search) and I think you could get away with that there. A stream is ultimately promoting its creator, i.e. a person, so you might run afoul of that restriction in their rules. I’m not sure. And as I said, it would depend more on the instance the bot is on.
In general, I would support allowing this.
Short form social media is basically a free-for-all. Hell, it functions more as a notification service than something like Lemmy.
Give my point of view expressed, a notification from anything is fine, bot or not. As long as the notifications are reasonable and easy for other users to block, sure. Knock yourself out. Have your bot notify us for whatever you want, with the understanding that I could just turn it off at anytime.
I should clarify that the bit is a mastodon account so you’d have to follow it.
Excuse my ignorance of Mastodon then as I have only really used it a few times.
If you follow an account, do you have the option to disable notifications from that account?
Yeah you can mute an account so you get no notification on it
