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[โ€“] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 116 points 8 months ago (9 children)

The repost bots syncing vapid content from Reddit.

"Lemmy isn't Reddit" but here are hundreds of communities that have no engagement outside of a bot mirroring Reddit content.

[โ€“] Pyro@programming.dev 47 points 8 months ago

I just blocked all of them when they started spamming my feed.

[โ€“] juliebean@lemm.ee 40 points 8 months ago

"communities"

kind of a stretch to call those communities, when it's just a bot talking to itself.

[โ€“] folkrav@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Iโ€™ve honestly yet to see or feel those. I however exclusively browse my subscriptions feed, so I guess I filtered most of them out by my community choices?

[โ€“] Deebster@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Some people are insane/brave enough to regularly view all/new. The bottom of the barrel must be broad and terrible.

[โ€“] zeekaran@sopuli.xyz 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not enough content to not use all.

Yeah, but all/new? If I go to all, it's all/ top day. All/new is before the mods can deal with the truly awful stuff.

[โ€“] JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

Agreed, in reddit I just browsed my subs and found some new ones every so often. In lemmy I browse all and block communities I'm not interested in.

[โ€“] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

I blocked the lemmit bot so I don't see those, but still mainly view subscriptions

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Block lemmit.online dude. Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months. Or block @bot@lemmit.online, because Lemmy has supported blocking users for even longer.

[โ€“] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months.

Depends on your instance; mine only switched last thursday.

[โ€“] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Same, and I still haven't figured out where to go to block instances instead of individual communities

[โ€“] Delphia@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I have one account I blocked it on and one I didnt.

Its useful for dumbscrolling.

[โ€“] Delphia@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Lets be real, the comment section of some of the meme communities is best left behind.

[โ€“] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

I love when it's a post where OP on Reddit was asking some kind of question.

[โ€“] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 5 points 8 months ago

It's awesome they keep it to just a few bot, blocking it will clean the hell up your feed.

[โ€“] robocall@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I never knew the joys of spaghetti hentai until I saw a reposting bot on Lemmy. RIP spaghetti hentai bot. I'm not sure why it died.

[โ€“] kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Wait, the Reddit bot still works?

How so if Reddit changed (dumbed down) their API?

Anyway, I blocked that bot since long ago hah