Every day I am noticing more and posts by bots.
At first it didn’t bother me as I thought bot posting may incentivate people to comment but since this rarely happens and now I think they are just polluting the communities.
I know I can filter them but I wonder what is the general sentiment about this.
I’m against it. Bots have poisoned other social media.
Not a huge fan of the reddit repost bots when we can steal content the old fashioned way by right-clicking!
I really dislike them.
I thought bot posting may incentivate people to comment
When a bot posts the same gardian link to every news community and then do the same thing for the next article, it kills any chance for comment as the poster is never present in the thread. Example: soyagi@yiffit.net
Many are low grade scams. Example: This user screams scammer to me chouaty1@kbin.social
Others are just marketing spam. Example: This user is just a marketing bot posting over and over links to the same site. raven3312@kbin.social
I wish actual humans would also stop reposting shit. Karma farming is not necessary on Lemmy or Kbin.
There is no karma on Lemmy, though. So they are appealing to good ol’fashioned spamming.
I mean… There is… It’s just hidden by the default UI. It’s exposed in voyager… You have 904 comment karma for example (and no post karma).
How do you filter out bots?
…asking for a friend.
It’s a joke my friend.
And unfortunately like a frog in biology class when I dissect the joke it’s going to die, so here we go:
Parent comment made it sound like it was very basic knowledge of Lemmy to block bots and because I didn’t want to appear dumb I added the ‘for a friend’ even though I intended that it was obvious I was asking for myself.
The failed attempt at misdirection should have been humorous.
Oh I know it’s a joke. But now that we’re here dissecting it (don’t take me too seriously :) ):
The problem with the “don’t want to appear dumb” premise is that if your friend is asking, and it’s common knowledge, then you can simply give the answer to your friend because you’re supposed to know the answer already. There is no need to “ask for a friend.”
With porn, though, the premise is not lack of knowledge, but to appear nice and clean. If you ask directly “hey what’s the link to that ass-to-elbow video?” you’ll feel ashamed. But if “your friend” is asking, then hey, you’re just the messenger.
Anyway. That was fun to type!
These bots will kill Lemmy.
