Asking for a friend.
What are the repercussions for creating an automated bot that would follow people who currently follow you?
Nothing on the https://dev.to/terms or https://dev.to/code-of-conduct regarding this.


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Asking for a friend.
What are the repercussions for creating an automated bot that would follow people who currently follow you?
Nothing on the https://dev.to/terms or https://dev.to/code-of-conduct regarding this.

You'd end up giving control of who you follow, and therefore your feed, to other people.
You'd end up seeing a lot of crap content and spam.
If the ToS and code of conduct say nothing about it, it’s probably fine.