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?
Not unilaterally. Linking to reddit is fine, but bots that just repost links are not. If you, a person, find something on reddit that’s worthwhile (a comic that’s only posted on reddit, or a thread detailing a tech solution, or something else) and link it, then that’s fine. You, a person, found value on another site and shared it. I don’t care what a bot thinks. I care what you, my fellow lemming, thinks.
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.
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.
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
There are some subreddits I don’t want to just lose and I don’t expect them to grow super fast here. I’m glad for these bots, they give me the choice u/spez is trying to steal from me.
It’s necessary in some cases
I rather it be a screencap and then a link in the description or a comment. I just rather not a direct link.
It’s funny to me that there’s a “Reddit” section on the fediverse where people just post complaints about Reddit. Just get over it already and move on.
It’s something a lot of members had in common when that was most popular… reddit experience and Splez angst.
It’s still helpful to talk about what’s going on elsewhere
- see what we can do better
- see what good features are worth adopting here
- Calling out bad actions by other platforms. We don’t HAVE to help people that aren’t on the Fediverse, but there are a lot of experienced and knowledgeable people on here that can discuss issues and how we can address them
Agree, doesn’t really make sense to engage with them since the original post and discussions are somewhere else. I think the point of these bots is to create more content to attract new people here on lemmy
Yes, so much “auto archive” spam. What are you archiving? A link? Because there isn’t any actual content there. As an aside, jerboa has an option to block bot accounts, so that’s what I’ve been doing now
Yes, there’s no engagement so no point.
It doesn’t bother me at all. Why should it? Actually I’m getting pretty sick about the complaining about it.
How lovely for you. Bless your heart.
Well you asked.
Sho nuff
If you don’t like it, block them.
Thanks I will, but the theme of the community is not what I object to, it’s the link to Reddit content.
Fair enough.
