First of all, L4s (sorry misspelled in titel) is not a real user, so no harm done here.

It’s an automatic bot xposting from reddit, making this community just as bad as r/technology, which kind frankly only revolves around politics and social media platforms.

I’ve had the user blocked 2 weeks now, and this community is muuuuch more enjoyable and is actually about technology now.

Just wanted to share a positive experience.

    • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
      11·
      7 months ago

      I forgot about those. Just blockbthe bot that posts them.

      I can see how they were useful when Lemmy was smaller. But now there’s enough content for me to browse that I don’t miss those reddit cross posts.

  • Katlah@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    571·
    7 months ago

    You can also make it so you don’t see any bot accounts at all, makes the experience 10x better.

    • glimse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      55·
      7 months ago

      There’s a discussion about bots posting on HackerNews but feel free to comment here

    • fishos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      7 months ago

      Which for awhile, this user(L4s) insisted on not labeling his bot as such because he felt his was special and deserved to be seen above others. Only after being massively called out did they fix it. But it left a bad taste in my mouth and I’ve had them blocked since, including their personal account. While the setting is useful, some users still need to be called out.

    • wildgingerEnglish
      261·
      7 months ago

      Is there a whitelist for that? Some of the bots are actually kind of useful

      • radix@lemmy.worldEnglish
        251·
        7 months ago

        There’s a checkbox in your Lemmy account settings to allow/block all bot accounts. Only works if they identify themselves as such, so it’s not foolproof, but it’s better than nothing.

      • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
        14·
        7 months ago

        In your account settings, uncheck “Show Bot Posts”.

        The one annoying thing is that if a bot replies to you (particularly the PeerTube bot) it can be tricky to clear the notification. There’s no clear all button on the website, but there is in Jerboa.

    • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      I think an instance popped up recently where every human user marked thselves as bot accounts.

    • TheMurphy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      311·
      7 months ago

      Thanks, unfortunately it’s not possible in my client Boost for Lemmy.

      Edit: Nvm, found it through my desktop. Thanks again!

      • DarkSirrush@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        7 months ago

        The biggest problem is that a LOT of people don’t use the bot account flag, so it only blocks about 1/3 of bots on lemmy

  • MHLoppy@fedia.io
    241·
    7 months ago

    As an aside, you can edit your submission title on lemmy/kbin/mbin.

  • BackpackCat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    7 months ago

    Thank You! Honestly I think one of the things I like a lot about lemmy, and the fediverse, is the ability to easily block users, communities, and whole instances I don’t want to interact with a all. Everytime someone complains about seeing too many foreign meme or whatever I wonder if they have tried the blocking features to trim down the timeline.

    • reddwarf@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      How do you, as a user, block an entire instance? As far as I know only an owner of an instance can block (de-federate) another instance. I would love being able to block an instance as a user though.

        • reddwarf@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          7 months ago

          The app is fine but I’m also using webui so I would love the feature to be at the ‘root’ of Lemmy instead only in 1 app.
          I read elsewhere that v0.19 will not bring complete instance blocking. Communities will be blocked but not the users, and it is the users and everything about an instance I want to block. I want to be able to black hole an entire instance, as if it and its users do not exist at all. I’m getting conflicting messages on the ability of v0.19 by several people and I am lost on what it will actually bring. I guess we will have to wait and see once v0.19 is out and we start using it.

            • reddwarf@feddit.nlEnglish
              2·
              7 months ago

              Yeah, and it’s the blocking of the complete user base of an instance that’s what I truly want and seek.

              • RickyRigatoni@lemmy.mlEnglish
                41·
                7 months ago

                Same. Instances are literally just a collection of users and they are the only reason to block one. I think the problem is the lemmy devs are mad everyone wants to block their pet communist instances because of the users there just generally being unpleasant people.

  • Elias Griffin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    7 months ago

    Really odd some Lemmy choices, allowing News Aggregation Posts (Simple link and summary) from a particular user that is somehow not flagged a bot/influencer/paid. I duna know how you can post Tech News Links 10 times a day, every day, for 5 months and still be allowed to post as a “person”.

  • sndrtj@feddit.nlEnglish
    156·
    7 months ago

    L4s should be banned. Who controls it? What is their agenda?

    • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      7 months ago

      Their agenda is “noble” (keep the content flowing here), but the reality is what the OP mentioned. I stopped going to the technology reddit sub because it was tiring to sift through the doomscrolling.

        • APassenger@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          7 months ago

          Or segment into more than 1 bot. 1 tries to only surface tech, another is less choosey. Then we block per taste. I’m not talking about 5 bots. 2, maybe 3.

            • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              1·
              7 months ago

              as a bot writer

              Ooh, how does one make a Lemmy bot? A couple of communities I moderate could benefit from a bot to post regular threads based on a template or respond to comments that contain key phrases.

                • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                  1·
                  7 months ago

                  I can at least get you started if not just make it for you. I can even host it for you until the code is complete.

                  Thanks so much for the generous offer!

                  Email me and we can chat.

                  Would you be opposed to chatting publicly, perhaps on [email protected] or [email protected]? The communities aren’t very active, but seem like suitable places to discuss this topic. I can’t imagine that we are the only people interested in this, and I feel that fostering some open-source bot development could be beneficial for the fediverse as a whole.

    • inverted_deflector@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      Yeah we shouldnt mirror reddit posts. If its not busy enough in a sub instance to foster news and discussion then it isnt busy. Growth should be organic.