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.
Comment on PSA: If you're tired of political posts in Technology, block user L4
eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
You can also make it so you don’t see any bot accounts at all, makes the experience 10x better.
fishos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 11 months ago
Is there a whitelist for that? Some of the bots are actually kind of useful
jungle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How?
radix@lemmy.world 11 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.ee 11 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.
glimse@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s a discussion about bots posting on HackerNews but feel free to comment her
Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What is hacker news I keep seeing titles with discussion on hacker news only place I’ve ever heard it
Vilian@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News
odium@programming.dev 11 months ago
hackernews.com
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I didn’t realise hackernews had an actual dedicated domain name. I’ve only ever accessed it from news.ycombinator.com
Xel@mujico.org 11 months ago
news.ycombinator.com
HN is a news aggregator where users can find and discuss the latest news and submit content on anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity. YC alumni also post engineering, product, and design jobs on HN.
It has pretty interesting discussions most of the time, the comments are usually very technical, but you can find pretty much the average Lemmy/reddit type of stuff there.