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If people can't be arsed enough to even get their post format correct, they don't deserve the free promotion.

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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yet I feel like there’s a point where the annoyance overshadows the benefits.

The bot is generally liked, it has much more upvotes than downvotes, so that sounds like a you problem.

I think it’s better not to accept bots at all.

That's your opinion. But clearly the creators of Lemmy itself think bots should be accepted, otherwise they wouldn't add a flag to mark user as a bot. And in your settings you can even disable seeing any bots, which sounds like the perfect solution for you.

But the argument feels a bit hollow when you plan on blocking Threads.

That's whataboutism. That's an entirely different issue than you disliking bots.

why shouldn’t others block your 40?

Because that's not how federation should work. Sure, block the instance all you want, but you're actively going against the spirit of Fediverse, especially when you have many other tools to solve it differently.

this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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New Communities

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A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

Rules

The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.

1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found here.

2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.

3. Follow the formatting. - The formatting as included below is important for people getting universal links across Lemmy as easily as possible.

Formatting

Please include this following format in your post:

[link text](/c/community@instance.com)

This provides a link that should work across instances, but in some cases it won't

You should also include either:

!community@instance.com

or instance.com/c/community

FAQ:

Q: Why do I get a 404?

A: At least one user in an instance needs to search for a community before it gets fetched. Searching for the community will bring it into the instance and it will fetch a few of the most recent posts without comments. If a user is subscribed to a community, then all of the future posts and interactions are now in-sync.

Q: When I try to create a post, the circle just spins forever. Why is that?

A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.

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