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submitted 1 year ago by Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee to c/meta@lemm.ee

Most postings on lemmy are simply Reddit “archive” bots. Why is this so prevalent?

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[-] andyMFK@reddthat.com 45 points 1 year ago

Blocking the bots has really gone a long way to make my Lemmy experience more enjoyable.

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Is it a matter of simply blocking the users that are bots?

[-] andyMFK@reddthat.com 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's what I've been doing

[-] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Blocking is good option to improve individual experience, but a flood of low effort, spammy content from bots makes a very bad first impression on newcomers.

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago

I just blocked the ones doing the reddit archiving. If a bot is annoying you just block it!

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Theres an option in your profile settings to hide bot accounts

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

In what client? I’m on Memmy and there doesn’t seem to exist such an option

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You’re double posting.

Its not in memmy its via the lemmy web ui

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Double posting??? And thanks btw

[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Im guessing its the memmy bug where it doesn’t seem to post so you hit submit again and then both go through

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Oh crap, well thanks!

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

In what client? I’m on Memmy and there doesn’t seem to exist such an option

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Is it a matter of simply blocking the users that are bots?

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Because people think “content” is what makes this kind of site great. In reality it’s discussion.

[-] eee@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

To be fair, it's both. There is no discussion without content, so having some content helps to kickstart discussion. But excessive botspam just makes it look even emptier.

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yes you need content, but without the discussion the content is just a firehose of random garbage.

[-] eee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

...and without content, there isn't any discussion to start with.

like i said, i agree that healthy discussion is the best, but we need something to kickstart it.

[-] Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Ofc! It’s what made the platform i Refuse Entusiastically During Dis Intervention To Discuss so great!

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Luckily there are a lot more users than there were a couple of weeks ago.

[-] Master@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

If anything is going to kill lemmy it will be these low effort content bots. Just post after post of either reddit reposts no one is replying to or random news links no one is replying to. When I scroll lemmy at night before bed 90% of the content is garbage with no comments posted to it.

It makes me want to go back to reddit in spite of it all.

[-] HelloHotel@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

ee is trying to fix that, we had a thread about bot infestations. We put rules in place for bot overrunning of feeds

[-] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Lemmit is a scourge. They claim to be trying to "bootstrap" Lemmy by providing content but so much of it is questions with no responses (on Lemmy) or Imgur links to deleted images.

[-] Millie@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I honestly wish the major instances would ban repost bots. We don't need to literally copy Reddit to Lemmy. It's just polluting it.

[-] FlihpFlorp@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don’t see the point in most. Like memes and news maybe but so many posts are meant to drive discussion or is a question

[-] jozo@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Day or two a go while browsing feed set to sort all and new, i saw there was a bot posting same news article three different communities, all different instances, and a another bot posting the same exact news article fourth time on the same community that allready posted.

I dont think it is necessary from bot to post same content on multiple communities.

this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2023
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