I would like to create a bot account for a community to warn about duplicate images. First thing that i tried is to create a new account and mark it as a bot, but i couldn’t use mail address i used to create my main account. is there a way to create bot accounts without creating separate mail addresses for them? i would avoid creating new mails just for lemmy bots
Sounds like you’ll either have to make an email for each bot or make them on an instance that doesn’t require emails to sign up.
Or, if you use Gmail, you could use your own email with a + alias. For example: If your email is you@gmail.com then you could use you+bot@gmail.com as the boy’s email. It should be treated as unique by Lemmy (I have not yet checked), and all mail sent to it will automatically be tagged as Bot.
i guess i will have to create some spare mail accounts. thanks for suggestions
A lot of mail providers support sub-addressing, you don’t have to use gmail. Some use different characters for it though.