I adore Lemmy, but one frustration that I keep running into is the quantity of shit expelled by Reddit mirror/repost bots.
No one comments on them, they’re always at a low score, and yet it seems like they account for half the “all” feed.
What does everyone do about this? Just block the shitty communities that these bots infest and move on? Block the bots themselves? Block the instances that host them? Is there any solution that would limit their damage to the default user experience?
Specific culprits, for context:
Now that I post this, I think I spot the common problem amongst these…
I have a toggleable ‘Show bots’ option in Settings>Account Preferences. I’m using Boost for Lemmy, but maybe other clients have a similar option?
I just blocked all the obvious bota
Yeah and i think some instances like piefed let you automatically avoid seeing bot content. (Only blocks accounts that have marked themselves as bots)
It is trivial to block the offending culprits. I browse new/all and with a very short list, I don’t ever see a single repost bot on my feed.
I’m on mbin. I can’t block them. Blocking them requires opening their profile page, and the page errors out because they have so many posts…
It’s not much to do, just start blocking the bots or if it’s a whole community then so be it. You’ll see a huge difference soon! It feels nice to have an uncluttered “All” feed. I just pop in sometimes to do a quick sweep. xD
I don’t often use the All feed.
When I do, I want it All.just block the communities.
