Comment on [META] So... about the bots
cerevant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As a (hopefully good citizen) bot maintainer, the best advice I can give is to not follow active or new. Hot and top should not show bot posts unless they are being upvoted.
SaveComengs@lemmy.federa.net 11 months ago
but I want to follow new. It’s how I find niche communities here, and because there was a lot of botting on a community, I had to block the entire community.
I come to lemmy because I want to interact with humans. If I wanted to read random articles, I’ll go to my bookmarked blogs.
cerevant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I can’t speak for the posting bots, but game day bots are pretty fundamental to sports communities - like, we have no shot at attracting any interest to our community if there aren’t game day bots. We’re literally running the same code as the reddit bots, just using the lemmy API. So that same traffic exists on Reddit, it is just that there is so much other traffic that they aren’t as prominent.