It seems to me that over the last two weeks, the Lemmy experience has been worsening. My front page and communities are filled with Reddit re-posting bots.

While this gives off a feeling of being active, it’s like a ghost town invaded by AI.

But if I block these bots, I also take the risk that I’m unable to participate in actual conversations between non-bot Lemmy participants.

  • godless
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    181 year ago

    Yep, for that reason I’m blocking bots individually. Ideally they’d give repost bots a separate identifier to block them specifically, but that requires the bot-dev to denominate them explicitly. Doubt many would do that.

    • @Laxaria
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      51 year ago

      For the time being the bot account flag is voluntary anyway, so there’s nothing stopping a repost bot from not indicating they are one.

      Block and move on is the most straightforward solution at the moment.