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Comment on alien.top is a new level of Reddit crossposting spam

I’m honestly so sick of bots on this website. Nobody even comments, it’s just junk that then dilutes the actual communities posting in c/all. I’d love to have a way to block all memes, porn, and bot posts just so I could actually discover new communities here instead of AI redhead pussy, bots crossposting stale linux memes, and old reddit help threads with 0 comments because they are asking for help on a different site.

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jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah, why would anyone comment in a crosapoat. Feels weird when the OP is not even here. I started blocking communities that mostly crosspost.

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- Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Right? There is an argument to be made for bot-submitted content to be used for jumpstarting news-oriented communities (the kind that are essentially RSS feeds with comments). But anything else just feels like speaking into the void.
  
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antik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You can disable bot accounts in your settings so at least those don’t show up in your feed.

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- Spzi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yes, but this also blocks helpful bots, for example link converters. I’d like to block the x-post spam but keep the utility from other bots.
  
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  - antik@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, understandable. On Lemmy World we defederate with those kind of instances because we know most of our users don’t want that stuff.
    
    Luckily the next version of Lemmy is around the corner and then you should be able to block those instances yourself.
    
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Masimatutu@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You can block both NSFW and bot posts in your account settings. I do the former, but I don’t want to miss out on the good bots so I just block the bad ones individually. Then, memes usually stay in the meme communities and it is quite easy to block those.

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- Wahots@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Huh, good to know. I might actually do that. I usually use an app, so I dunno if those settings are exposed in-app.
  
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  - Masimatutu@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They should apply everywhere :)
    
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  - Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    They do
    
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- nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  there are plenty of communities with useful content that are also plagued with pointless unfunny garbage memes
  
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nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I would very much like to be able to block any post that links to an image

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- smeg@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I think the Summit client for android can do this
  
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  - nutsack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    hell yes it does thanks for the gold kind stranger
    
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  - Corgana@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Very cool thanks!
    
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Texas_Hangover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Where the AI redhead pussy at?

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- Wahots@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  There’s a bunch in c/all, lol. Some of it okay, some just straight up not great. Eventually c/all runs out of topics and just starts injecting nsfw posts from subs.
  
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