I started blocking them to avoid my feed looking like some eerie ghost town
Haha I totally understand you! Its like community mods think content in it self will make the community take off - but I think it’s engagement and conversations that will…
I wouldn’t call this a shower thought, but what do you mean?
Agree. If i see a whole feed of half-cut-off news posts, I don’t go into that community.
your profile settings > disable Show Bot Accounts > save
That’s a good start.
I’d like to block bots. But I still want to see bot post that have human comments on them. Is that possible?
Not likely.
You can just block individual bots if you don’t like what they’re posting. Might take some work but in time you’ll be able to curate your feed such that the only bot posts you see are the ones you want to see
The problem is that this seems like a band-aid fix to me. I mentioned this in another thread, but I feel like the bot posts deny the human chance to post and engage with the same content. When a human is the one to create the post they often have both knowledge and passion for the subject and will continue to engage in the comments. Bots do not.
I think ultimately this is something that should be handled by community mods. Ask for feedback from their communities, and if it’s what the people want disallow the bot posts.
From where I sit, this instance of Lemmy is too small to worry about bots denying the users. 😉
The only big communities are relatively quite small, YET. The biggest are some 1-2k comments worth. It’s not particularly big throughput…
From where I sit, this instance of Lemmy is too small to worry about bots denying the users. 😉
Is it? I myself have gone to post something I found interesting, and saw a bot beat me to the punch. I feel it hurts the smaller communities even more. You end up with those bot post graveyards. Though, I get this a complete non-issue to some; It’s why I suggested letting the communities and moderators themselves decide. I see no harm in that.
My personal preferences make me more likely to comment and contribute to content posted by other humans. I get lemmy is small right now, but I don’t see why communities should wait to address these bots when they are already clearly a divisive subject.
If you have something to say, say it anyway.
Often, the difference between useful and not-useful lies not in the message, but its style, wording and such. 🧐
Yeah, I don’t tend to comment on things posted by bots.
I’ve just been blocking rehost bots by username.
Or community if the purpose of the community is literally just links to reddit post of an article.
There’s luckily an option to hide bot posts, something Reddit never had. Reddit was filled with them as well, but they disguised themselves as regular users. I don’t see anything wrong with it, also creates posts to comment under. I don’t see OP usually adding much to posts, but go there for the comments anyways.
Bots are pretty nice for football updates
