Lemmy is plagued by bots worse than reddit
Lemmy is plagued by bots worse than reddit
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
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There is a single check-box solution to this "ZOMG A PLAGUE OF BOTS" pearl-clutching problem. All you need to do is check your settings.
Some mods use bots for useful purposes (such as recurrent threads posting). Blocking all the bots would prevent you from seeing those
It sounds like a fair trade.
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.