Is there anything I can do to filter out bots? I cant see anything else except reposts from Reddit. Its multiple communities too so I cant easily filter it out. Its mostly the bots from zerobytes.monster.

  • @[email protected]
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    71 year ago

    How many different bots are there? Can’t you just block them?

    There is an option to block all bots in the settings, but some mods use those for regular threads, so that might prevent you from seeing those

    • @[email protected]OP
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      61 year ago

      They post so much their profiles just timeout for me in Jerboa. Luckily I can block them one by one.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          21 year ago

          Nope. I don’t want to block all bots since there are also good ones. I have no idea what the point of that bot is, it doesn’t really contribute anything to Lemmy.

  • @[email protected]
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    1 year ago

    lemmit bot is the main one to block. You can also uncheck show bot accounts in the settings.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Friends, the upper level poster didn’t say that sync was the be all and end all. They provided a blanket statement of “I’m not sure of others”.

          This isn’t Reddit and there are a lot of options to to consume content.

          If someone wants to use a way to access Lemmy and interact, does it really matter what “flavor of ice cream” they choose?

  • Spzi
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    31 year ago

    @[email protected], can we please defederate zerobytes.monster? If you look at https://zerobytes.monster/communities, the numbers are extreme. Thousands of posts per community, but only 2-digit comments (in total! for whole communities!), some have literally 0 comments for thousands of posts.

    Most (all?) posts are mere reposts from reddit. Their “bOt” posts so much, the user profile (when viewed from lemm.ee) does not load, so we cannot block it. It drowns the All-feed for new users.

    Referring to the administration and federation policy for lemm.ee, I think these two lines are relevant:

    Some concrete examples of instances which we would defederate:

    1. An instance which has a 2:1 ratio of bots to users 🤖
    2. An instance which is focused on creating spam in the network
    1. While it seems to be just one bot and a few users, the activity of that bot vastly outweighs humans, by a factor in the thousands.

    2. I’m not sure if it’s their intention to create spam (honestly, no idea what their intention is, really - advertising for reddit?), but in effect, that’s what they do.

  • @reddig33
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    31 year ago

    Lemmy needs hashtags like #bot, #celebs, #sports, etc. so that users can apply filters.

  • @Alexstarfire
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    11 year ago

    This is probably dependent on how you browse Lemmy but Sync allow you to filter specific users so you could specifically filter bot accounts.