Well, yes, I expected to be notified for external activity too, not just my collaborators when I purposely set up notifications for external activity. xD
Yes, coming from another platform *cough* I expected the bots to not be my user impersonating a bot, but some sort of system function, leading to both collaborators and me getting notified. Because - something I find rather obvious - I want to be notified if someone else got some work done.
The workaround was something that occurred to me too, but I wanted to verify that the behavior I was seeing was the expected one going from the current codebase.
thanks for making that clear.