These damn bot accounts are going to kill Lemmy.
These damn bot accounts are going to kill Lemmy.
Every post i try to open brings me to one of these stupid bot posts with the comments from the post I'm trying to interact with. I've just started blocking the bot account as it happens then i can open up the post i was interested in.
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How about the bots that are just ripping every post from the original reddit community and posting it to a copy community here.
I'd call that pretty low effort community building
Yeah, I love automating stuff as much as the next guy, but I'm not the most keen on this. I think at the very least these kinds of posts / communities should be on their own instances.
I've just blocked the bot from lemmit, it's hundreds of posts with zero comments or engagement
A number of people are coming from Reddit. This places the same content here, which facilitates them using kbin/lemmy. I think that it's a positive.
My concern is that, say it's an aita thread. The person who is asking, is not even on the other end. It serves no meaningful function as far as discussion and I just leave the thread.
AITA is one of the most glaring ones where the bots don't make sense because of the need for interaction with the OP.
I don't mind it so much with news communities and such since I'm mostly there for the article, not the OP's thought about it.
There's going to be some growing pains as we figure out what an acceptable use and amount of bots is, and while I see a use for them to create content now while the amount of active users is still relatively low, I'm hoping as Lemmy continues to grow, they'll mostly get phased out
I just saw that there's an entire instance dedicated to this:
Lemmit.Online
They don't even accept registrations because it's only purpose is to repost content from Reddit. Is there a process to submit these types of things for defederation? It's fine for this stuff to exist, but it shouldn't automatically be pushed out to the entire fednet.
Well, defederation is the last resort, but for now personally blocking the bot seems to be the fix for me
Yeah, understandable.
I'm more just wondering what the process is for community discussions on what is and is not defederated. It's seems extremely shortsided to build a system in which only the admins have a say in that kind of thing.
I think defederating lemmit would be a good idea, if I want to read Reddit content I would go back to Reddit.