I keep seeing communities which seem to consist of nothing but a bot that reposts stuff from Reddit.
What’s the point? Really? I ain’t posting a comment about a funny thing there. No one seems to post about the the second-hand funny thing here.
Can we please just sever ties with that shithole altogether?
Block the bots making those posts, there are only around 3 or so that keep spamming. Your feed will feel a lot better after.
Liberal use of the block feature has made the Fediverse so much more pleasant. I can’t recommend it enough!
This is why I don’t think the Lemmy platforms will really grow to Reddit size until we solve this problem. Most folks don’t want to curate their own feed when they first explore a social media platform. That usually comes later after they’ve been drawn in.
What Lemmy and kbin could really use is a set of default subscriptions that are curated by instance admins to provide the best new user experience.
For that matter, default block lists wouldn’t be so bad either
That’s true. It would be cool if we could “subscribe” to a curated block list, sort of like we do with AdBlock plugins.
In general, individuals blocking other users for [insert toxic misbehavior] is bad. The problem isn’t that one user in particular is seeing it; the problem is that it exists at all and erodes the quality of the whole network.
Take trolling, for instance: if you just block the troll, all you’re doing is giving them carte-blanche to keep spreading misinformation/shit-talking you/whatever without you knowing about it. Everybody else can still see it, though, which means they could still be doing damage to your reputation and you’d just appear to acquiesce to it.
People engaging in bad behavior need to be banned by the mods, not just blocked by individual users.
Yeah & you could recommend Lemmy to friends who might ask you about all the nazis or whatever who became popular overnight without you seeing them.
If your mental health can’t take it you get a free pass for sure :)
Agreed that blocking is useful, but the default shouldn’t be having to jump through hoops to make the fediverse usable, especially for new users.
I’d suggest the mirrors of other social media be delegated to their own instance that clearly states that it is a bot-run Reddit or whatever mirror and other instances don’t show them by default.
Those that want the mirrored no engagement content can subscribe to those on those particular instances and nobody needs to have a problem.
Good idea!
Another great thing about Lemmy is that people can choose what they want to see instead of a platform deciding for them.
If you don’t like the bots, block them. If someone wants the bots, they can subscribe to the communities.
It’s really only a problem when someone is making too many separate bots that it gets hard to block all of them
It is also a problem if it is not obvious that it is bot generated content and another if it floods actual user generated content.
The ‘All’ feed could be considered a blessing or a curse.
Nevermind the bots.
If a [insert random community] post pops up and I comment on it then they get shitty and say “well why did you come in here to this niche subject and post?”
I think… “If it’s delivered to me in the ‘All’ feed then it’s fair game to post in.”
If people don’t want ‘outsiders’ in their “safe space” then perhaps some communities shouldn’t have their feeds set to shout their content to the whole Fediverse.
More like the “Literally Just Memes” feed
Which ones?
Not the OP, but I’ve got the following bots blocked and it massively improved my Lemmy experience.
Thanks!
Yeah, I was gonna say “there’s links to reddit?!”. I blocked those so long ago I had forgotten about it.