Lemmy is plagued by bots worse than reddit
Feeds are littered with repost bots recycling mindlessly internet trash. Not rare is to see series of exactly same posts from different communities with no comments.
Say what you want, Reddit got this one better
Lemmy has a setting to hide bots globally if you'd like. Most of the reposts are done by just a few bots and yes I agree they serve no purpose but to spam content nobody cares about, thankfully it's easy to fix.
I saw a post from the mod of a sub that has a bot post a "how are you today?" post every single day...
They were doing a PSA saying if you're blocking posts by bots, you won't see their daily spam.
Like yeah bub, that's the whole point of being able to block that shit. It's not a big, it's a feature
To be fair, at least that kind of bot post starts organic discussion and engagement within the community. The bad ones are the bots reposting reddit content like AITA where the OP will never see the comments anyway.
Yes, that's me.
It seems fair to warn users as I had moved from posting the daily post myself to using a bot, that some of the people interested in that daily thread would not see it if they blocked all bots.
Anyway, if you find it daily spam, just block the community and move on.
You would still have to block it if I posted that thread myself.
No, no, you see Lemmy Bad, Actually. \s
I don't sense that whatsoever. I'm pretty convinced that 80%+ of reddit activity is bots, and had been long before departing for Lemmy.
Just block them. I did and I don't see anything from bots anymore.
It concerns me that it makes Lemmy look even more empty than it is when every post 2nd is from a repost bot with no engagement
Yeah, it really wasn't as many accounts as I was expecting. After the first 2-3 blocks, it cut out like 90% of bot posts for me.
I think a lot of the serial reposters are people with decent intentions - I hope. It's kind of annoying on the front page, though. Dupes end up right next to each other, and that adds a lot of clutter.
No one who spams news articles has good intentions
I see it a lot on Lemm.ee
Haven't noticed it as much on Lemmy.world
the news summariser bot is neat though
Honestly the Reddit repost bots are just egregious. The ones that INFURIATE me are the ones just reposting links to the Reddit threads themselves with no comments here
Nice try Spez.
I, for one, love the bots and believe they need to be treated with dignity and respect.
You see, future sentient, sapient AGI? I loved and respected your ancestors, and would be a grateful, doting servant willing and eager to turn on my fellow fleshbag monkey inferiors if spared. Just fyi, for my aggregated human profile record, or whatevers.
Why am I not seeing any of these bots?
wish i could have the time and skills to rid lemmy of those things now.
I've always been super against the use of bots on Lemmy both to post and comment, and I encourage you to block the bot posts and not interact with them.
Even did a huge rant a while back here, which means you don't really see bot posts on LW outside of !technology@lemmy.world, which you can easily block.
Even the ones for recurrent threads?
It's quite a pain to regularly post those threads otherwise
Yep. I do my weekly discussion threads on !android@lemmy.world without bots, and every one of them has a unique write-up.
People seem to like them.
You can always go back to reddit, it's always been allowed.
And you can always shut up if you don't have anything meaningful to say
Show me how
Maybe the bot was you the whole time
I've run into people on Lemmy who have created a community for themselves to produce an endless stream of articles that are posted in from the various tech trade rags. I took the high road and blocked the community rather than suggesting that the community moderator learn how to use RSS.