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User of those bots here:

I think this whole problem stems from the lack of tools to configure bot experience. On mastodon, for example, bots can post “unlisted” posts – which don’t show up in the main feed. Only subscribed people receive their posts. On Lemmy there’s no such privacy toggle and admins are forced to shoot a fly with cruise missiles – by defederating instances

I’d understand if you folks decide to defederate from bot instances however I’d urge you to escalate this discussion upstream to LemmyNet github for following features

post privacy i.e. intended reach
moderation tools to handle bots activity en masse

This would be far more lasting impact on quality of global fediverse feed and efficient use of admins’ time IMO

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TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This far you’re the only person in the thread I’ve seen that uses the bots. How do you implement them and how do they improve your Lemmy experience?

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- graphito@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Firstly, I totally understand people who find reposts annoying and I have blocked few of those because they’re simply irrelevant to me
  
  lemmit online / hackernews reposts
  
  those help drive inspiration for post making: I can snatch best ideas and post my own version on lemmy
  It’s especially helpful when you’re maintaining inactive community where you’re the only poster. Inactive subs are seen as dead ones.
  
  not my use case, but I see those instances as ability to combat FOMO for the users who just switched over to lemmy and getting use to its quirks. No need to snoop to reddit if its content is in your feed either way
  
  if you see lemmit online posts then someone on your instance wants this content/subscribed to it – it doesn’t appear out of nowhere
  
  controversial opinion
  tbh I wish each lemmy sub would have its own bot to post content stolen from other places of internet. Almost all popular websites have ones and they do bring large audiences. Be it just memes, science news or animal photos: people stick with a website because they can regularly get their dopamine hit. “Normal people” i.e. lurkers usually don’t care about post originality. People simply want enough good quality content
  
  QoL bots
  
  tldr bots are generally helpful for long reads\vids and I wish they would be available as option on post creation page
  
  bots for linking to invidious instances / archive.ph nonpaywalled articles: just saves time
  
  P.S. as a bonus here’s a page about bots that wikipedia uses to streamline and automate work Wikipedia bots - Wikipedia
  
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