For example: Funzobot, News bot, and Finance bot.

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    471·
    22 days ago

    I think this sufficiently sums up my take:

    The fact that that’s an option at all makes Lemmy considerably better than Reddit.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    10·
    22 days ago

    Doesn’t bother me. You can always block them individually like users if they are cluttering up your feed.

  • GuyFawkes@midwest.socialEnglish
    10·
    22 days ago

    I like the news bots as I’m thinking a lot of content wouldn’t be posted without them. That being said, would prefer more human engagement, but we’ll get there!

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        7·
        22 days ago

        Would would the point even be? They’re mindless spambots no one asked for.

        On my instance, I just ban them and defederate from repost instances. On my LW account, I was blocking the accounts individually and have since blocked metawire.eu entirely since it’s nothing but automated repost slop.

        It’s like every couple months, some new joker comes along and thinks “gee, golly, it’s empty here compared to R****t. I bet people will appreciate it if I made a bot to spam out content” and pats themselves on the back for a spam well done.

    • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      I wish there was an option to turn off link-only posts. At least have something in the body of the post. Maybe a quote or a TLDR. Otherwise it just feels like a bot posting.

  • aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    22 days ago

    Good now, bad later.

    Lemmy is small enough to only have useful bots now. Naively, I think policing bot content across instances will grow into a nightmare the day that policing is needed.

  • Bongles@lemm.ee
    3·
    22 days ago

    When I used imgur, it had 2 bots, this time last year and a repost detecting bot. I thought that was useful, and the userbase over time got sick of the repost one.

    When I used reddit, with all of the different subreddits, every dork on there felt like they needed to create a bot for any niche or joke but they made it opt out, instead of in. That was excessive and i found it annoying.

    I hope Lemmy stays closer to the first example, or no bots at all.

  • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
    2·
    20 days ago

    I am not a fan. I don’t like link dumps. It doesn’t create a discussion and the article or whatever is being relayed might be total shit and there could be better or more direct sources.

    If I saw a Hackaday article about a neat project on GitHub I wouldn’t just post the article with the original title. I would probably link the GitHub page and in the body of the post link the article with a quote and maybe post similar projects in case people are interested.

    I specifically dislike the bots that repost content from Reddit. The communities they post to feel fake and end up receiving so many posts actual Lemmy users posting to them get washed away in the flood.

    It’s not a big deal for some communities (ex. Nature photos) but doesn’t make sense for discussion focused ones.

    I block those bots

      • Pronell@lemmy.world
        4·
        22 days ago

        I’m talking about Lemmy bots in general, on any instances.

        I view all and have to block bots fairly often as they’re posting things in languages I can’t read in large amounts.

        I think they’re supposed to use language tags and are not, but I just block them because of there being a large amount of unhelpful content.

        And let’s be honest, there’s always gonna be a ton of that, hence my filtering. But if the people making bots to post content could make sure the posts are properly marked, I wouldn’t need to block them and would continue to see the content they post that I can read.

      • can@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        22 days ago

        Each Lemmy comment (and post) has a field for its language to be set so people can filter out ones they don’t speak. Sounds like some bots aren’t configured properly