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No, they are garbage. I block every single one I come across. Else Lemmy is nothing but an echo chamber.
There is a block bots setting in the user settings as well, although it may also block useful ones.
Many of them just link back to reddit, no idea what's useful about that
Hate 'em and immediately disabled the option to view bot posts
as long as the amount of scraping is very limited, e.g. copying the top 3 posts of a subreddit daily, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal 🤔
I could arguably see sharing a few choice posts each day, but it seems like it's always posts that have no votes or comments or interactions
All I want is an nsfw scraping bot. Only reason I still open Reddit. Lemmy's NSFW content is lacking
All the other bots that I see from lemm.it are useless imo
nope.
There’s a PCMR one I don’t mind because it just results in images of peoples builds in my feed. Another bot I appreciate is a HN bot over on derp.foo - mildly useful to have this stuff collected over here like it’s an RSS feed.
In short - they’re ok in sparing doses
I have already contributed my two cents on this before the exodus. If you tolerate these types of low effort bots here, you will kill the platform.
Nobody wants that shit.
no
Depends on the posting frequency… some just fill up my feed, and I had to block them to see a better variety of content
It's a great question. I am missing certain content from the niche sub-reddits and trying hard not to fall back to Reddit.
Some of this 'reposting' will help the community to add comments/interaction but as you mention may turn this platform into a leech.
Either way people implementing Bots helps the moderation teams to some extent.
Lemmy should not try to be a carbon copy of a 20 year-old VC-funded for-profit site with hundreds of millions of users. Lemmy should establish its own identity and play to its strengths.
I find them useless because you often lose the necessary title and post text that accompanied the image, plus you always lose the relevant discussion. This last bit is almost always the most engaging part of the post.
I suppose they could be useful in adult communities, or for memes and shitposting where titles and text are either redundant or useless.
All in all, I say we get rid of them.
It depends on the bot. That one on lemmit online is as dumb as rocks. The Boycott Reddit Bot is doing a decent-enough job of generating posts that people reply to.
I was following a few just to keep up with what cool things people were making. I think I unfollowed them now because reddit posts more often than lemmy and these dominated my feed and I still had no one to talk to about the post.
Makes me wish there was a site-wide feature to block instances.
Semi related: I almost wish we were archiving Reddit posts with Lemmy, so we could find our answers here. Like this? the people in the comments haven't found all of the resume settings, I think. They're kind of spread out. I'd suggest to keep looking. I just accomplished this task, but I'm not logging into that website. Need an /c/[email protected] lol. Directly bring value to redditors in interacting with lemmy. Hey bro we answered your question here take a look ->
Only thing that leaves me worrying is longevity of hosting service. I used that thing for twelve years. This whole time the servers haven't lost track of my data. How long will these servers last?