I was always tempted to make a bot on Reddit, but put off by the seemingly random and poorly communicated ways that they were handled by the admins. There were many innocent bots randomly banned for nothing (including largely incoherent ones like AgentSmith) as well as bot creators being randomly banned.

It’s a pity about the limitations here on Lemmy. Letting them completely loose like in the Interactive sub on Reddit is them at their best IMO. I used to wait in anticipation for those notifications. Looking at the community here, it fell flat in this form.