Yes you are right. Bots are not necessary bad. bskycheck.com is kind of 50% bot 😁

On BBCnews yes I could also check key words in handle name like "bot", "rss". Might be a good idea but the idea of the tool was more to try to identify the bots in disguise (from bot dumps, name, post paterns...)

I read long time ago "self reliance".
Which one is about industrial revolution? good read?

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yes on the clouv url, article explaining their PDS hosting: www.clouve.com/blog/clouve-... It is actually quite cool.

I don't think their account name are indicative of spam, just naming policy on their PDS

Anyhow... deleted all those users from my records (just to keep stats coherent)

Hi, The blue checks are not related to registering your domain.
They are given only by trusted verifiers, alternatively you can try to request one by filling up this form: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Yea. Not this one, but I saw quite a few threads about this.
I engaged in one of them...
For me, since the beginning: a spike of users followed by a gradual decrease until the next spike.
Pretty normal, more people finding their community here. That is the only thing that matters; it takes time...