Comment on PSA: If you're tired of political posts in Technology, block user L4

eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Squizzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What is hacker news I keep seeing titles with discussion on hacker news only place I’ve ever heard it

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    • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

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    • odium@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      hackernews.com

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      • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I didn’t realise hackernews had an actual dedicated domain name. I’ve only ever accessed it from news.ycombinator.com

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    • Xel@mujico.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• fishos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• jungle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How?

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  • radix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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