Lemmy is plagued by bots worse than reddit - eviltoast

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

  • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Some mods use bots for useful purposes (such as recurrent threads posting). Blocking all the bots would prevent you from seeing those

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        1 year ago

        To each their own, but some specific communities (such as professional sport events discussion) are probably going to rely on those once the bots become stable enough.

        I’m quite neutral on the question, just wanted to bring it to attention to people reading this thread.