It seems to me that over the last two weeks, the Lemmy experience has been worsening. My front page and communities are filled with Reddit re-posting bots.

While this gives off a feeling of being active, it’s like a ghost town invaded by AI.

But if I block these bots, I also take the risk that I’m unable to participate in actual conversations between non-bot Lemmy participants.

    • godless@latte.isnot.coffee
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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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      1 year ago

      There’s no such thing as a useful bot. They’re all annoying and I’m glad I can block them all.

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      1 year ago

      What kind of bots are you referring to? I have all bots blocked, noe I’m worried I’m missing out.