Everyone is free to reply to a bot, and I do that sometimes with news articles, but it's sometimes clear that those people don't realize they're replying to a bot. 

 I also see the value in being able to filter and pull-together news feeds and infobots in a separate client-channel.
Sometimes I actually just want to see what Zerohedge is writing and what the weather prediction is, but I wake up to 193 posts, and they're somewhere in there.
On the other hand, I am sometimes reluctant to subscribe to bots I'm interested in because they can be prolific and they drown out the real posters.

This would allow for an entirely different client to be built. 

 I have this problem too. I wish I could "follow" npubs into multiple different lists, but as far as I can tell Amethyst doesn't do this yet. Do any other clients? 

 You have to hand-curate your lists on listr.lol or similar, and then they show up in Amethyst and other clients as a drop-down box over the feed or whatever. Where "following" is. Following is also just a special list, after all. 

 What I'm suggesting, is that the profile creator can express the differentation clearly, of their own volition. To allow for a different use case (filtering/categorization).

That allows for them to have a

Lyn Alden 🤖  npub19taxhhc7a7xs60ct6gh26sdhnaqcdq84zzcmaduqvzgqrjqct4dsat7eyn

and a 

Lyn Alden 👩 
npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a 

 nostur fixes this w/ custom feeds, its like lists on twitter, you can put npubs in custom lists youll see their posts and you dont even have to follow them, best thing is nobody else can see your feeds (stays in your device/s) tied to your icloud 

 Much appreciated! Had planned to do so too but completely forgot - must've gotten burried somewhere within my ~/work folder... ^^' 

 I was glad to find someone with the same idea. 

 It was kinda nice going there and seeing that we'd thought alike. Like bumping into an acquaintance when out shopping. 🤭 

 It's an optional field and/or we can have a separate tag for individual notes.
Just want to kick off the discussion, as it fits into the type of "reading" client we want to build and provides more information than we currently have.

If they don't like the PR, we can change it, or they can refuse it. 

 I also would point out that npubs aren't rate-limited, or something. You can have a corporate bot and a human-led bot that replies to comments under the bot stuff.

Or have 
- a project npub, that publishes release notes and stuff, (labeled as "bot", even if everything isn't automated)
- a support npub, run by a group of people, that responds to questions or complaints
- and then the developers have their own npubs

You can create feeds that clearly separate things by source. That's less weird and creepy. 😅