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When an opted out user tries to use BF, DM them an alert

Open snarfed opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

Hit a case recently where someone had #nobot in their profile bio, which BF interpreted as them opting out, but may not have been their intent. They tried to follow a BF-bridged account, and got confused when it didn't work.

When this happens, we could consider having BF DM them from a service account to say, hey, you're opted out right now so we're not doing anything, here's how to undo that if you didn't intend it and want to use the bridge after all.

snarfed avatar Dec 14 '23 20:12 snarfed

Heard from the user here: as expected, they hadn't intended #nobot to block bridges after all. Should we drop #nobot and only use nobridge to opt out?

snarfed avatar Dec 17 '23 17:12 snarfed