Tell the bot to never be the first comment. I find it very frustrating when I see “a comment on this post” and it’s just the bot. I’m here to read what people have to say so it is very annoying when I think someone said something and it’s just the bot.
There was even a front page meme about this last year, but with another noisy bot. Lemmy doesn’t bury new comments like Reddit does, so there’s no real penalty to making the bot wait.