A Simple Improvement for Bots

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨jeffhykin@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩

If bots would post once a day, or once a week, and only post the top-voted non-duplicate post of that timeframe, it would be a dramatic improvement.

I would tell the bot creators myself, except I don’t know how to get in contact with them.

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cheeseburger@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I finally went into my Lemmy settings on a web browser and unchecked ‘Show Bot Accounts’ after months of tolerating bot posts. It has made a dramatic improvement to my feed.

There were just too many, and some bot posts that have whole bot comment sections too; that was what put it over the top for me to block all bots.

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remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I feel like any reddit that asks questions should not have a Lemmy bot. Like I just saw a bot for r/whatisthis and I just can’t understand the logic. Who would EVER answer a question when the OP can’t even see the response.
  
  Meanwhile, something as simple as calvin and hobbs clips are being manually posted on a daily schedule by a regular Lemmy user.
  
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  - rglullis@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I don’t think your example is coming from the alien.top bots, but I do see some justifications for mirroring “self” posts:
    
    Creation of an archive while Reddit still keeps the API minimally available.
    
    Content for lurkers who don’t want to give traffic to Reddit but also are not necessarily interested in interacting with the posts.
    
    (In the case of alien.top and fediverser instances in general) The idea that the content being available on Lemmy can ease the migration.
    
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