Comment on New rules for bots on lemm.ee & Lemmy programming stream

WoodlandAlliance@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If the community is nothing but bots then it’s still a dead community, though.

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  • 1024_Kibibytes@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I agree. I noticed a community mentioned above that was nothing but bot posts from YouTube. The community name did have YouTube in the name, but there were no comments on any post that I saw. A community that is just bots reposting information, possibly in random fashion, is not really a community, because no one is communing with another human or with a bot.

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    • willnever_fadeaway@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah that YouTube repost bot is the worst offender imo. Crowds the local feed and brings nothing to the table, blocked it was soon as it inconvenienced me from reading actual stuff here on Lemmy

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• WarmSoda@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You would have amore meaningful time facing two TVs together and leaving the building, then a community full of nothing but bots. It’s a waste of a community, data, and servers.

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• linuxisfun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Personally I don’t like replying to bots. It feels like talking to a wall. There is no real person behind the bot account I’m replying to and I will never have a discussion with this account. Isn’t having discussions the point of social media though? Otherwise I could just read my RSS feeds …

  I’ve therefore selected to not show me bot posts on Lemmy and try to hide bots from Mastodon by filtering for keywords, such as “bot” or “twitter feed”, in profiles.

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