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TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

That’s kinda of a shitty answer imo.

  1. The sheer volume of spam from repost posts crashes some app/browsers if you try to open their profiles. The bot from zerobytes is particularly egregious, because it posts hundreds of posts an hour and they’re direct links to Reddit. It took me opening the profile in a browser tab and waiting ten minutes to block it. New users will just leave.

  2. It shouldn’t be user’s responsibility to filter spam from a given platform. That’s why Facebook died. That’s why MySpace died, at least partially. There has to be a bare minimum from a content:engagement ratio and repost spam bots ruin that

  3. The content just sucks. Hundreds on posts with no comments or context are lame, it’s inhuman. If I was here to talk to bots I’d be on Reddit. Creating bots that flood the all feed with endless nonsensical bullshit with no comments and the no incentive to engage is fucking stupid, and anybody that supports or uses those bots is an active detriment to the community. Here in the near future I’ll be spinning up my own instance where repost bots, and anybody who uses/subscribes to them will be banned.

Maybe I’m a bit of a zealot about this, but it’s so painfully simple how damaging it is to the growth of lemme as an independent social environment I can’t helped but be angry.

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