Why are there so many bots all lemmy?

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• andyMFK@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Blocking the bots has really gone a long way to make my Lemmy experience more enjoyable.

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  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is it a matter of simply blocking the users that are bots?

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    • andyMFK@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s what I’ve been doing

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    • tad_lispy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Blocking is good option to improve individual experience, but a flood of low effort, spammy content from bots makes a very bad first impression on newcomers.

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    • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Theres an option in your profile settings to hide bot accounts

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  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is it a matter of simply blocking the users that are bots?

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• Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Because people think “content” is what makes this kind of site great. In reality it’s discussion.

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  • eee@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    To be fair, it’s both. There is no discussion without content, so having some content helps to kickstart discussion. But excessive botspam just makes it look even emptier.

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    • Hawke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes you need content, but without the discussion the content is just a firehose of random garbage.

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  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ofc! It’s what made the platform i Refuse Entusiastically During Dis Intervention To Discuss so great!

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  • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Luckily there are a lot more users than there were a couple of weeks ago.

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• Master@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If anything is going to kill lemmy it will be these low effort content bots. Just post after post of either reddit reposts no one is replying to or random news links no one is replying to. When I scroll lemmy at night before bed 90% of the content is garbage with no comments posted to it.

  It makes me want to go back to reddit in spite of it all.

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  • HelloHotel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ee is trying to fix that, we had a thread about bot infestations. We put rules in place for bot overrunning of feeds

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• Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We’re trying to build communities. A good way to do it is to have bots post content, so there’s stuff to see on our feeds.

  It’s always a balancing act that doesn’t work for everybody. But the beauty here is that each individual can curate their own feed.

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  • Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It rubs me the wrong way tbh, because it doesn’t feel authentic at all

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    • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      +1 I Have blocked a good number of these.

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    • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s entirely understandable. That’s the thing, though. It’s hard to have a community grow on its own, organically, in these times. A large majority of users are rather passive, they don’t actively contribute by posting or commenting so much. If they don’t get enough content on a topic/community, they’ll forget it exists.

      So, to build a community, you get a bot to “seed” it with content until enough people know it exists and contribute stuff themselves.

      It’s weird and fucked and, unfortunately, it’s the world we live in now.

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  • spacesape@lemmy.nrsk.no ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We’re trying to build communities. A good way to do it is to have bots post content, so there’s stuff to see on our feeds.

    There’s always ups and downs with everything. By using bots you might get subscribers, but people like me who don’t agree with being force fed robot spam will actively avoid such subs.

    In fact I find it so disagreeable I refuse to donate resources so people can host spam on my instance instead of actually posting content themselves.

    I would not like to be part of a community that finds auto-generated content to be of an acceptable quality.

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