You can turn of all bots in your user settings if you want.
But we are active and i haven't seen AI spam bots that haven't been purged fast.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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Note that you will also block useful bots like that.
Yep, for that reason I'm blocking bots individually. Ideally they'd give repost bots a separate identifier to block them specifically, but that requires the bot-dev to denominate them explicitly. Doubt many would do that.
For the time being the bot account flag is voluntary anyway, so there's nothing stopping a repost bot from not indicating they are one.
Block and move on is the most straightforward solution at the moment.
What kind of bots are you referring to? I have all bots blocked, noe I'm worried I'm missing out.
There's no such thing as a useful bot. They're all annoying and I'm glad I can block them all.
I havenβt seen anything you have. My defaults are Subscribed > Active, and I usually jump to last hour, 6 hours then 12 hours after which I close Lemmy and go do something else.
Itβs a great routine.
This is more of a support question, please see the sidebar for communities that can help you out. Removing under rule #3.
I had the same feeling last week on seeing soo many cross posts from reddit.
As the original thread is taking place elsewhere, there seems no point in posting any comments into the lemmy version of it, or for that matter even seeing it.
I thought we were leaving reddit behind - not dragging it with us.
Alternatively, if this is an attempt to archive all the good stuff, shouldn't the bot bring the comments too?
You need to assess each bot. Usually I have a look, see what content they post and how often, and make a decision
it is worsening imo but for me it's because the comments on here are generally cynical, negative, and talking down on people. it's better when you get into more niche communities but I have definitely slowed down with commenting :/ (Which I guess isn't helping the problem)
Just block the bots. Keep the ones that generate a decent amount of conversation.
You can also ignore bot postings that don' t have comments.