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197 points

People want to see more happening here. The fediverse is not quite the ghost town it was a year ago, but it’s still pretty quiet, especially once you start digging into hobbies.

Of course, the good solution is not bot-driven, but human-driven. But people are lazy and think that they’d rather repost thousands of posts with a bot than figure out what links they think are good and post those.

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91 points

IF ITS TOO QUIET MAYBE WE SHOULD TYPE LOUDER?

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51 points

Mechanical keyboard users unite!

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10 points

I CAN’T HEAR YOU

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10 points

𝖄𝕰𝕾! 𝕷𝕰𝕿’𝕾 𝕿𝖄𝕻𝕰 𝕷𝕺𝖀𝕯𝕰𝕽!

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3 points

This thread is for regular typing, not yer fancy typing.

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6 points

BUTTLICKER! OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER!!

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1 point

You never yell at the client!

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4 points

I prefer to type softly, but carry a big stick, to beat people with.

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1 point

Mechanical keyboard gang rise up!

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44 points

I used to use a bot in one of my communities to help me out. Turns out it spammed way too much. Once I got feedback from the community I turned it off. I now have sources fed to me privately via RSS and then filter content based on what I think the community will enjoy and post it manually. Is it harder? Yes. But the community has more engagement, comments more, and votes positively more often since I started doing it this way. I also gain consistent new subscribers daily. I also have control over the “nozzle” so if multiple stories are worth posting but there are too many, I can sideline some for when the news slows down and post them later.

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23 points

This is exactly how bots should be used on the platform. Unleashing a firehose of bot-post content drowns out user activity - using a bot to source filtered content that’s actually interesting and valuable? I’m all for that.

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There’s something I’ve noticed about Lemmy, mind you I don’t use any apps or whatever, just through the browser on PC, but, this one thing makes the platform feel so hollow and annoying.

Scrolling through whatever feed. All Active or whatever. You’re on page 2. You see an interesting title. You click on it to read the post and comments. You click back. You’re now on page 1 of the feed again. So it feels like Lemmy is really trying to be about 30 posts deep at any given time.

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98 points

I’ve been wondering why people have been reposting Reddit posts on Lemmy. If I wanted Reddit posts, I’d go on Reddit.

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145 points

I assume many people migrated to Lemmy because they wanted a Reddit without spez.

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30 points

Honestly, that’s why I’m here. I do like the decentralized/non-corporate model though

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15 points

I don’t think you suck.

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9 points

Reddit without astroturf, toxic redditor and farm bots.

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6 points

I don’t even care about that. I just can’t use their app, it’s garbage.

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-38 points

As covered in the title, it’s because they suck

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26 points

You could just… block the things you don’t want to see?

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58 points

I hope at least AskReddit stays far, far away. I don’t need dozens of “Sexers of Lemmy, what is the sexiest sex you’ve ever sexed” shit every day here.

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8 points

I mean there’s already !asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com

Which is filled with exactly these kinds of questions. Or shit like “What naughty things did you get up to today?”

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10 points

It is a NSFW instance, so as long as it stays contained there I don’t see the problem.

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4 points

Don’t worry the repost bots spam posts from there too

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1 point

/c/ihavesex

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I immediately block them as soon as I realize they’re a repost bot. Has cleaned up my feed nicely.

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31 points

Just sucks that every new user will have to jump through hoops and block a dozen accounts before Lemmy is useable.

Not to mention that even opening some of the bot accounts pages to block them crashes the page sometimes because they have so many posts

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23 points

Truthfully I found I have had to block quite a few more communities than just the reddit bots. Everything in the fediverse has required work so far. Worth it imo though.

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4 points

Can we have group blocks?

Let users collaborate on the list of accounts and domains they want to block. E. g. have a special type of channel and every link that is posted and upvoted is blocked.

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6 points

Isn’t there an option to block bot accounts?

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11 points

Some bots are actually useful; article shorteners for example.

I don’t want to disable all bots just because of a few bad actors.

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-2 points

Yes. Some people just like to complain. There’s plenty of stuff that needs blocked that are not bots.

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4 points

Good thing I can block them just from their post. Some Lemmy apps are cool.

(on Liftoff i can, on thunder I can’t).

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2 points

Yes thankfully I realized this after a bit because I could not click in and block due to crash!

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1 point

Jerboa lets you block the OP/community without even opening the post, let alone the OPs profile.

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3 points

How is it crashing? Don’t most Lemmy instances only load like 20 per page or something?

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5 points

Probably using a poorly coded 3rd party app. There are so many phone apps now any many are still in the early stages of development. I saw another user saying “Blocking a bot account crashes my app” but I fail to see how that’s Lemmy’s fault

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10 points

I’m almost there, still at the internal dialogue of “oh damnit” and mild annoyance stage but haven’t quite gotten to the “do something about it stage”

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Came here to say this. As seen in this thread, there are people who seem to want it, so I see nothing wrong with letting them have it. I wonder how hard it would be to implement a blocklist to make this a bit less of a hassle.

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52 points

The ones that post 60 articles about every sports team from some aggregate of RSS feeds and run on a timer every 30 mins and clog up the feed are annoying as well

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12 points

This is the main reason it’s so annoying.

You try to scroll by new and you see a hundred posts on the same community from a reddit bot.

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