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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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  • I've always been super against the use of bots on Lemmy both to post and comment, and I encourage you to block the bot posts and not interact with them.

    Even did a huge rant a while back here, which means you don't really see bot posts on LW outside of !technology@lemmy.world, which you can easily block.

    • Even the ones for recurrent threads?

      It's quite a pain to regularly post those threads otherwise

      • Yep. I do my weekly discussion threads on !android@lemmy.world without bots, and every one of them has a unique write-up.

        People seem to like them.

        • I'm more thinking about sports communities, where moderators will probably plan the unique threads match ahead to not have to open them all manually.

          I also have a daily thread in !casualconversation@lemmy.world I tend to automated, because it makes my life easier

          • You should try pinning a weekly discussion and write a short paragraph yourself every time on whatever comes to your mind instead. Try it in casual conversations, I think it'll work a lot better as the comm looks a bit too spammy right now, and it's a lot less work on your part.

            Lemmy is different from reddit in that a thread can keep going more than a couple of hours after it's posted, making dailies unnecessary. You don't have to do everything the same way as on reddit, but you have to experiment.

            • I tried weekly for a while, but it just seemed to be buried under all the other stuff, even if it should indeed stay visible longer. I noticed that after one or two days, nobody would comment anymore.

              I'll probably keep the dailies this week and then the community what format they prefer.

              • You should pin the weekly thread and write a little about a general topic to discuss to start the conversation. I find that works the best.

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