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Most postings on lemmy are simply Reddit “archive” bots. Why is this so prevalent?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's what I've been doing

[–] [email protected] 15 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Theres an option in your profile settings to hide bot accounts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In what client? I’m on Memmy and there doesn’t seem to exist such an option

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You’re double posting.

Its not in memmy its via the lemmy web ui

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Double posting??? And thanks btw

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Im guessing its the memmy bug where it doesn’t seem to post so you hit submit again and then both go through

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Oh crap, well thanks!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

In what client? I’m on Memmy and there doesn’t seem to exist such an option

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I just blocked the ones doing the reddit archiving. If a bot is annoying you just block it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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