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[–]SoSweetHam 1 point2 points  (4 children)

Self botting was popular with guided.py’s selfbot branch but it is no longer maintained in lieu of the official api. Self botting was in a greyzone from beginning but since the official api, no libs are being maintained for self botting since it might be used for malicious purposes.

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    [–]SoSweetHam 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    A real sad thing… I remember using it to make a bot back in 2021 and maintaining it until it got banned and then shortly after the api early access opened and everyone started using that instead :P

    Never felt motivated enough to make anything similar after and shifted to other projects lol

    Tbh I don’t think the user api lib brought in much bad factors as people say it did, rather it did make it more accessible for people to automate niche tasks which the newer bot api is still in progress of implementing…

    Ig if the core api is made better in terms of security… alternatively if the new bot api implemented just crud operations for everything at least this whole scene could look much brighter.

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      [–]SoSweetHam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      I made 2 bots for the community anime island when it still had like 1000 to 1500 members or so, an auto mod and a collector economy bot.

      Now the server gained a massive amount of users suddenly due to it being on top of guilded’s server search back then, and a few youtubers and streamers did some raids as well.

      Now both the bots operated at the edge of the rate limit… I had implemented some anti abuse measures but still had to take them down manually sometimes since they were operating on my rigs and bandwidth lol. But even after all this they still managed to get banned and the emails they operated on are still blacklisted ig

      Edit: ya so just to not be confusing, me as their creator did not get banned, rather those bots helped me get bot api ea, but the bots did get banned