Is the Lemmy experience worsening? How do I block Reddit bots but allow participation?
Is the Lemmy experience worsening? How do I block Reddit bots but allow participation?
It seems to me that over the last two weeks, the Lemmy experience has been worsening. My front page and communities are filled with Reddit re-posting bots.
While this gives off a feeling of being active, it’s like a ghost town invaded by AI.
But if I block these bots, I also take the risk that I’m unable to participate in actual conversations between non-bot Lemmy participants.
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You can turn of all bots in your user settings if you want.
But we are active and i haven't seen AI spam bots that haven't been purged fast.
Note that you will also block useful bots like that.
Yep, for that reason I'm blocking bots individually. Ideally they'd give repost bots a separate identifier to block them specifically, but that requires the bot-dev to denominate them explicitly. Doubt many would do that.
For the time being the bot account flag is voluntary anyway, so there's nothing stopping a repost bot from not indicating they are one.
Block and move on is the most straightforward solution at the moment.
What kind of bots are you referring to? I have all bots blocked, noe I'm worried I'm missing out.
There's no such thing as a useful bot. They're all annoying and I'm glad I can block them all.