I have disabled it for myself but want to know what others have experienced.
There are many helpful bots, like the one that corrects community links to be instance-neutral.
Thanks! It’s nice to see a random praise for one’s work!
Ok. I’ll try enabling it and see the difference.
Question: Are those “bot accounts” flaired to identify them?
Those that are actually helpful are. Those that try to scam you and pretend they’re human aren’t flaired. So by unchecking you’re only getting rid of the useful bots.
I think any true “bot” would be flaired correctly. I blocked any bots I did not like, including @bot@lemmit.online
I think any true “bot” would be flaired correctly.
Just FYI: The bot checkbox an opt-in thing with no enforcement, so it’s basically guaranteed that some developer will eventually either forget to tick the box or deliberately choose not to. These are still early days for Lemmy, so who knows how the situation will eventually evolve… but for now it’s basically the wild west.
Bad bots won’t mark themselves as bot accounts so it’s lore a case of if you want to see things like reminder bots etc
Disagree. If that were the case then the evil bit would be entirely redundant
The reason why I made this post was my subscribed feed was being filled with lot of posts from https://lemmy.world/c/digitalart and https://lemmy.ml/c/memes, and I didn’t like the fact that these two prominently stayed on my feed. Unless post from other communities weren’t highly rated, they weren’t showing up, where I’m more interested in seeing new posts from niche communities.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !digitalart@lemmy.world, !memes@lemmy.ml
Good bot.
I haven’t seen any botspam really, just a helpful bot that fixes links to other Lemmy communities.
Theres a setting to hide bot accounts?
I have been frustrated with how many repost bots are across various instances. And why theres so god damn many “sports-team-name_bots”
Yep, just found it the moment I realized it was a thing in this thread - go to your account settings and you’ll find an option to unselect bot accounts
I wish there was a way to just mark bot accounts…like finding out it’s a bot doing most the posting in TIL…wtf is that? If the community needs a bot to grow it, perhaps it’s not an important community on Lemmy at this time? Perhaps there’s another sub that’s going to grow more organically? In which we will infact learn something today?
Just want bot-less communities (other than fun/helpful ones that aren’t Grond) that aren’t headed by greed. Jfc.
/rant
The whole drive to recreate every single subreddit by any means necessary is misguided. Lemmy should be its own place, not a facsimile of Reddit.
I don’t think it’s wrong to recreate a beloved community, and I think it makes sense to also populate it with content. I just think that posting a copy of Reddit is a problem, and automated posts too often are also not good. At that point you’re trying to force the community into existence rather than having it be organic. I think it’s okay to boost the community a bit, but not to try to make Lemmy the new Reddit.
I will say that Lemmy in general seems very Reddit-like, which is what causes people to try to make Lemmy the new Reddit, so I’m not surprised that people are just trying to migrate subreddits to communities here. I think Lemmy needs a bit more of an identity to avoid that.
Exactly, people will always keep creating something. Just need an open ground to show it to others.
Where abouts? The only option I see is “bot account” tick box which I have switched off (but still see bots). I thought that option was whether you are a bot account?
It’s right under “bot account” on my screen…I’m on the desktop site though (thru my phone but still)
Thanks!!
Note that you can block specific accounts it you want. If you see an irritant you can block it.
