@pancakes@meow.company@akurilov @rail_ @mawhrin Having a bot that automatically seeks out and follows users with the intent of scraping their profiles is something that most people do not want. Accepting follow requests from the bot is not an adequate form of consent when the default behaviour of every fediverse server is to automatically accept follow requests on the user's behalf. Suggesting that it is consent is disingenuous and abusive. If it was truly opt-in users would not need to be aware of the different opt-out mechanisms such as the nobot tag or account settings that some servers might not have. Moving your bot to a different domain name to bypass the large amount of blocks you have received is also extremely shitty. If you truly wanted it to be opt-in without manufacturing consent then the bot should operate off of mutual, 2-way following, not a follow request that most users will automatically accept with no input.
