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Is it a good idea to enable "show bot accounts" on lemmy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago by lemminer@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I have disabled it for myself but want to know what others have experienced.

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[–] Nemo@midwest.social 61 points 2 years ago (3 children)

There are many helpful bots, like the one that corrects community links to be instance-neutral.

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 6 points 2 years ago

Thanks! It's nice to see a random praise for one's work!

[–] lemminer@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Question: Are those "bot accounts" flaired to identify them?

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 11 points 2 years ago

Those that are actually helpful are. Those that try to scam you and pretend they're human aren't flaired. So by unchecking you're only getting rid of the useful bots.

[–] burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think any true "bot" would be flaired correctly. I blocked any bots I did not like, including @bot@lemmit.online

[–] chaorace@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 2 years ago

I think any true “bot” would be flaired correctly.

Just FYI: The bot checkbox an opt-in thing with no enforcement, so it's basically guaranteed that some developer will eventually either forget to tick the box or deliberately choose not to. These are still early days for Lemmy, so who knows how the situation will eventually evolve... but for now it's basically the wild west.

[–] lemminer@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Ok. I'll try enabling it and see the difference.

[–] peter@feddit.uk 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bad bots won't mark themselves as bot accounts so it's lore a case of if you want to see things like reminder bots etc

[–] StudioLE@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

Disagree. If that were the case then the evil bit would be entirely redundant

[–] lemminer@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The reason why I made this post was my subscribed feed was being filled with lot of posts from https://lemmy.world/c/digitalart and https://lemmy.ml/c/memes, and I didn't like the fact that these two prominently stayed on my feed. Unless post from other communities weren't highly rated, they weren't showing up, where I'm more interested in seeing new posts from niche communities.

I'm facing the same issue what I was facing with Reddit where important posts from smaller communities were getting skipped from my feed. Which I find very undesirable.

Althought I appreciate the memes and the artwork, I had to unsubscribe from them. Which is giving me better results.

[–] CommunityLinkFixer@lemmings.world 12 points 2 years ago

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !digitalart@lemmy.world, !memes@lemmy.ml

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

I haven't seen any botspam really, just a helpful bot that fixes links to other Lemmy communities.

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