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 ```toml
 instance = "https://lemmy.example.org"
 username = "BotUserName"
-password = "BotPassword" # Note: Passwords containing special characters might need to be escaped using '\\'
+password = "BotPassword"
 status_post_url = "PostUrlForStatusMonitoring"
 config_reload_seconds = 10800