Feeds are littered with repost bots recycling mindlessly internet trash. Not rare is to see series of exactly same posts from different communities with no comments.
Say what you want, Reddit got this one better
Lemmy has a setting to hide bots globally if you’d like. Most of the reposts are done by just a few bots and yes I agree they serve no purpose but to spam content nobody cares about, thankfully it’s easy to fix.
I saw a post from the mod of a sub that has a bot post a “how are you today?” post every single day…
They were doing a PSA saying if you’re blocking posts by bots, you won’t see their daily spam.
Like yeah bub, that’s the whole point of being able to block that shit. It’s not a big, it’s a feature
Yes, that’s me.
It seems fair to warn users as I had moved from posting the daily post myself to using a bot, that some of the people interested in that daily thread would not see it if they blocked all bots.
Anyway, if you find it daily spam, just block the community and move on.
You would still have to block it if I posted that thread myself.
I don’t sense that whatsoever. I’m pretty convinced that 80%+ of reddit activity is bots, and had been long before departing for Lemmy.
I think reddit bots are there to promote specific content and create a synthetic sense of engagement, which spurs organic engagement. Its part of the business model.
I have a conspiracy theory that this is how Marvel got to be what it is today.
I usually find it difficult to tell if I’m interacting with a bot on Reddit (unless it’s of those novelty bots with bot in the name). I think there are definitely a lot of higher quality bots on Reddit that are designed to hide their true identity and intent whereas on Lemmy the bits tend to be more obvious and visible.
Just block them. I did and I don’t see anything from bots anymore.
There is a single check-box solution to this “ZOMG A PLAGUE OF BOTS” pearl-clutching problem. All you need to do is check your settings.
Some mods use bots for useful purposes (such as recurrent threads posting). Blocking all the bots would prevent you from seeing those
I think a lot of the serial reposters are people with decent intentions - I hope. It’s kind of annoying on the front page, though. Dupes end up right next to each other, and that adds a lot of clutter.
