Vapid argument: You can always check it yourself. That is the benefit of open source: you can inspect the source code and see if it’s malicious or not. You would usually know if an open source project is malevolent or not; if you still have some dubiety, you can always deploy it yourselves.

Yeah, we should be able to summon bots on lemmy posts like we do on reddit. Can we do it? lemme try: @autotldr@lemmings.world

Yes please. Sumn like reveddit or unddit for lemmy would be pleasant.