I found the discussion of blurred boundaries between public and private particularly compelling. The text highlights how users may experience social media as an intimate or personal space, while the platform simultaneously functions as a public arena with broader visibility and consequences. This tension helps explain why ethical norms on social media are often unclear or contested, since users may not share the same assumptions about what kind of space they are participating in.

One ethical framework that could be added here is care ethics, which focuses on relationships, vulnerability, and responsibility rather than abstract rules or aggregate outcomes. In the context of social media automation, care ethics would draw attention to how bots affect trust, emotional labor, and users’ sense of being in a social space with other humans. This perspective could be especially relevant for platforms like Bluesky, where social interaction and community norms play an important role, and where even seemingly harmless automation might undermine relational trust.