Have you considered letting your students and their bots loose on some intranet playground rather than the actual internet, especially when its upwards of a hundred enthusiastic newbies at a time ? Did anybody actually sign off on the ethics of what you're doing ?

March 19, 2026 - 21:10 UTC

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We try to follow the bsky terms of service and I've looked for sandbox environments for students. We have instructions for all bot activities on discord (which is private but a pain to set up), and Reddit (where we try making private subreddits but get banned anyway). I'm thinking of adding Mastodon
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For Bluesky bots, I tell them not to interact with real accounts and have them answer:

"If people saw those posts and then later discovered that they were posted by a computer program, how do you think their view of the posts would change?"

social-media-ethics-automation.github.io/book/bsky/appendix/teaching/03_course_work/03_assignments/a1_make_7_posts.html
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