I... That's not how this works. Or at least that's not the context I'm referring to.
I can make an account (or 1000, Lemmy doesn't exactly have controls to stop me) and run it as a bot, and NOT mark it as a bot. And use it to automatically manipulate the tone of conversations and threads without anyone knowing. And the premise of your argument is now void.
Labeling of bots is done via goodwill.
We're not worried about goodwill users in this context. We're talking about astroturfing bots posing as actual users. That said, labeled bots are still a problem if their content out grows organic user content, since that just isolates us, and erodes our community in favor of w/e interesting content bots scaped up today.
Which is a massive problem on almost every social media platform already. And will come to Lemmy soon enough.
Yes, and with reddit having a baseline corporate & bot astroturfing rate of ~25% that's not exactly a good bar to measure by.