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Completely agree. It's just spam.

Edit to add: maybe I'm just unnecessarily grouchy but I wish we could move away from the idea that lemmy is a replacement reddit. There are similarities but lemmys own culture needs to coalesce independently. Crosspoint from reddit perpetuates the misconception in the worst possible way.

An extension of the above is the idea that defederation is the last, worst solution to any problem. It's born of the idea that users should have one long- lived account that accesses everything which is in itself a redditism. Would it be so terrible if you needed multiple accounts to view instances which are not federated?

lemmit.online is fine, what a great project, archive some reddit posts or something.... but federating with it doesn't provide any value to anyone.

I entirely agree and I highly recommend that most instances generally ban bots like this.

But I'm not against people running them on instances where it is specifically welcomed, and I think other instances shouldn't defederate the instances that do - we should just ban the bots and/or the remove the communities that consist entirely of bot posts.

This way, any users who want to use a lemmy client (or website) to read a combined view of the lemmyverse-at-large plus some scraped subset of reddit can just make an account on one of the servers that is doing that.

Human users of those instances should be able to participate in the larger lemmyverse, even if the bots are banned from the rest.

I don't see it in the modlog now, but I think it was me that banned @bot@lemmit.online from lemmy.ml a few months ago, and I just banned a similar one @Dannebot@leddit.danmark.party today (and sent basically the above suggestion to the operator of it).

I agree wholeheartedly

I agree. The sheer number of bots and the … enthusiasm with their posting frequency is making the overall experience worse.

I remember a discussion I was having on another site about what was happening with Twitter and Reddit, and there was a phrase that really stuck with me - “curation is the product.” I think many of us use a service like lemmy to find interesting things, ask questions, and have conversations. The mass auto posting of article after article makes discovery challenging. My All feed looks like a spam-filled inbox.

And unfortunately block lists really don’t work. They’re tough to maintain, and they certainly don’t help new users find the communities that would make them stay.

I really think the bots need to be banned or throttled.

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