Popular sites tend to have them, ones you can customize to do whatever you want. Reddit’s and Discord’s are famous. People will commission them for money. Reddit’s haiku bot and their remind-me bot are famous even outside of Reddit. Discord’s most famous ones include the Pokemon-themed “Poketwo” bot and the now-defunct clyde bot.
The idea of the fediverse is that websites can join a league of nations type of organization that keeps the membership up and allow meta-interaction in return for cooperation, right? Wouldn’t the absence of bots come across as highly ironic given their utility with communicating across digital borders? Is making bots not possible, or is it just not favorable here (again, ironic)? I imagine certain bots could even establish communications with outside the fediverse, making a meta-fediverse.
As other people have said, there are definitely bots on the fediverse
In fact, the coolest thing about lemmy for me is that there’s a checkbox in settings to disable viewing any bot users
Although as I understand, users have to self-identify as a bot, so the actually harmful bots probably don’t do that. But I can dream