• Naminreb
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      211 months ago

      If they’re like NewsUser and Botittest, the bots will flood this place when they start. Even though these two good bots have made this place a lot more usable, it feels like that’s what the “All” thread has become. Just news.

      Don’t get me wrong, I like the news feed, but now I understand why it became a separate thread in Reddit.

      Whichever the instances that lowered their guard were, there will be a day they will have to be defederated. It’ll be a test for this place, for sure.

      • Nepenthe
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        11 months ago

        Don’t get me wrong, I like the news feed, but now I understand why it became a separate thread in Reddit.

        Same boat as you. It was your comment that made me realize the one filling my feed with nothing but news was all only linkbot and when I blocked it out of curiosity, I could see memes and user posts again. It was posting so often it was literally drowning out every other subject.

        I think it’s nice to keep up with news on a platform that doesn’t seem so US-centric and full of vitriol, and I’ll be sad to see it go. Might turn the block on and off. But I’m already subbed to a news community.

        • @demoDEMON
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          111 months ago

          Dumb question (new to Lemmy) but how does one block bots from feed? Isn’t that up to the community the post originated from?

      • @hydra
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        111 months ago

        I already blocked Lemmit from appearing on my feed, but there should be an option to block posts from certain instances from appearing in your feed at all. I really hope we get to fight the bot problem without losing the advantages of federation.