@akurilov @rail_ @mawhrin a bot is "a computer program that performs automatic repetitive tasks". Mastodon is the largest fediverse server software. Awakari is a service that "Aggregates thousands of: Feeds ..., Fediverse Publishers and Telegram Channels". Awakari is very different to Mastodon but it uses a Mastodon account as a bot to aggregate, or "scrape", "Fediverse Publishers" as it calls them.