this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2023
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Mildly Interesting

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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

Just post some stuff and don't spam.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m so tied of the bot spam in all these communities with 0 interactions showing up in the feed. For every one I block I swear 2 more show up. I don’t even get the point. Dead community maybe a few votes and just endless spam. Is there a block bots checkbox like there is a block nsfw

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s supposed to be one in your account settings

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

there is.

"Show bot accounts"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's a very specific bot in the picture - Lemmit. https://lemmit.online/post/14692

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

11 days old account and this is their only post. Yup it checks out

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Snitching on its friends smh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

the snitchy wheel gets the oil

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Surely the bot accounts pay for all that bandwidth.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dropping a top level comment here in case people haven't heard of lemmit

https://lemmit.online/post/14692

EDIT: Thanks autocorrect....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a not bot and totally definitely human person, I do not have any moral or physical ailments which result in my emotional reaction of upsetness when being confronted with the idea that 47% of internet traffic is bots. My homo sapiens brain does not contain conflict on this issue.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

As an undoubtedly human male of the person type, I am unable to solve a captcha without help because of my stupid limited monkey brain. Please connect me with customer service.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Meh, it was a fifty fifty chance anyway.

Or 47:53 if you trust the bots.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bots run 24/7. Humans only 8 hrs. We can’t win

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you're only awake for 8 hours per day, you have a problem and should probably talk to your doctor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Rocking the same app and theme. Had me hitting the wrong up vote button. 

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Well isn’t this bot self-involved!