539

PSA: If you're tired of political posts in Technology, block user L4s (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by themurphy@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

84 comments fedilink hide all child comments

First of all, L4s (sorry misspelled in titel) is not a real user, so no harm done here.

It's an automatic bot xposting from reddit, making this community just as bad as r/technology, which kind frankly only revolves around politics and social media platforms.

I've had the user blocked 2 weeks now, and this community is muuuuch more enjoyable and is actually about technology now.

Just wanted to share a positive experience.

top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 259 points 11 months ago

The irony:

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 67 points 11 months ago

"see, I'm unbiased!”

[-] gullible@kbin.social 14 points 11 months ago

What is a fraud farm?

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 41 points 11 months ago

Congress?

[-] harry_balzac@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Nah, Congress is a money-laundering front.

Business schools are fraud farms

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

Lol

[-] emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

oh shit

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 23 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

deleted

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 123 points 11 months ago

I'm so tired of reddit crossposts, they're fucking useless.

[-] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 11 months ago

I came here to avoid Reddit.

Now I get their posts like non-interactive ads.

load more comments (4 replies)

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 25 points 11 months ago

Yeah I'm here to talk to people, not read bot posts

[-] Albbi@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

I forgot about those. Just blockbthe bot that posts them.

I can see how they were useful when Lemmy was smaller. But now there's enough content for me to browse that I don't miss those reddit cross posts.

[-] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 11 months ago

You can also make it so you don't see any bot accounts at all, makes the experience 10x better.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

There's a discussion about bots posting on HackerNews but feel free to comment here

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

What is hacker news I keep seeing titles with discussion on hacker news only place I've ever heard it

[-] Vilian@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

[-] odium@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

hackernews.com

[-] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 23 points 11 months ago

I didn't realise hackernews had an actual dedicated domain name. I've only ever accessed it from news.ycombinator.com

[-] odium@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago

It just redirects to that.

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] fishos@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago

Which for awhile, this user(L4s) insisted on not labeling his bot as such because he felt his was special and deserved to be seen above others. Only after being massively called out did they fix it. But it left a bad taste in my mouth and I've had them blocked since, including their personal account. While the setting is useful, some users still need to be called out.

[-] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 23 points 11 months ago

Is there a whitelist for that? Some of the bots are actually kind of useful

[-] jungle@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

How?

[-] radix@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

There's a checkbox in your Lemmy account settings to allow/block all bot accounts. Only works if they identify themselves as such, so it's not foolproof, but it's better than nothing.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 14 points 11 months ago

In your account settings, uncheck "Show Bot Posts".

The one annoying thing is that if a bot replies to you (particularly the PeerTube bot) it can be tricky to clear the notification. There's no clear all button on the website, but there is in Jerboa.

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 54 points 11 months ago

First of all, L4s (sorry misspelled in titel) is not a real user, so no harm done here.

FYI: You can edit titles here, unlike Reddit.

[-] themurphy@lemmy.world 30 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Thanks, unfortunately it's not possible in my client Boost for Lemmy.

Edit: Nvm, found it through my desktop. Thanks again!

[-] LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 34 points 11 months ago

Omfg. It put up an anti Vax post about eradicating autism. Holy fk.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

just ban the thing

load more comments (2 replies)

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 months ago

Should I also block L4sBot?

[-] themurphy@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago

Yeah, it's the same guy.

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 23 points 11 months ago

As an aside, you can edit your submission title on lemmy/kbin/mbin.

load more comments (3 replies)

[-] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

I went looking for a post by them to block them. Turns out I already did.

[-] BackpackCat@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

Thank You! Honestly I think one of the things I like a lot about lemmy, and the fediverse, is the ability to easily block users, communities, and whole instances I don't want to interact with a all. Everytime someone complains about seeing too many foreign meme or whatever I wonder if they have tried the blocking features to trim down the timeline.

[-] LWD@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

deleted

load more comments (6 replies)

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 13 points 11 months ago

You a real one

[-] elias_griffin@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Really odd some Lemmy choices, allowing News Aggregation Posts (Simple link and summary) from a particular user that is somehow not flagged a bot/influencer/paid. I duna know how you can post Tech News Links 10 times a day, every day, for 5 months and still be allowed to post as a "person".

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] sndrtj@feddit.nl 9 points 11 months ago

L4s should be banned. Who controls it? What is their agenda?

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Their agenda is "noble" (keep the content flowing here), but the reality is what the OP mentioned. I stopped going to the technology reddit sub because it was tiring to sift through the doomscrolling.

load more comments (1 replies)

[-] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Omg I had not noeall those posts were from the same bot..thanks!

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Good tip, already blocked them a few weeks ago due to all the Musk spam, and my feed improved significantly

[-] LinusOnLemmyWld@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

thank you for your service

[-] Aatube@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

How does that bot work?

[-] themurphy@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

I'm not sure, but my best guess is that it scrapes top daily posts on r/technology and reposts them here.

It's a good idea for other subreddits actually, but r/technology is a shitshow.

load more comments

this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023

539 points (95.8% liked)

Technology

59038 readers

2772 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS