I’ve noticed we have bots copy pasting Reddit submissions. Is there a method to block them all?
I assume they mean good by ‘generating’ content in communities, but I don’t see a reason why anyone would comment on them since the OP is on Reddit and will never read them.
I know I can block each individual account as I come across them but I’d just prefer to block them all so I don’t see their content at all.
They appear to do the nice thing by adding a line in the submissions about it being an automated submission. Is there a filter for words/phrase found in the body of a submission?
I just uncheck “Show bot accounts” Gets rid of most.
On Eternity (previously Infinity for Lemmy) you can set filters for words and phrases in posts
It’s weird that people seems to outright hate any kind of repost. You know that there are posts that don’t really requires any user interaction to be useful. I am subscribed to the repost bots of the Today I Learned, life pro tips, memes, piracy and other subreddits and the contents been really nice so far.
I don’t mind reposts when there is discussion on the reposts. When there is zero discussion, which is what’s happening with the Reddit copy paste on Lemmy then it’s just clutter.
If I sort by new, most of the submissions are reposts with zero votes and zero comments. If I sort by activity/hot then I see days old submissions. … how engaging. I’d prefer to engage with new content but I’m not prepared to look over ~twenty submissions to only find one or two real submissions.
Good to have this content cross posted here so you can gauge people’s opinions and feelings. It’s a net positive if it’s generating good dialogue (even if the OP won’t ever see it)
Bots taking the place of humans when it comes to social interactions is NOT a net positive…
It was negative side effects that we have been seeing for years now. One of which is the removal of organic human behavior, bots driving extremism & polarized views/discussion, and humans losing empathy for each other without realizing it’s the bots that despise.
Let’s not turn lemmy into reddit v2
The issue, there is no dialogue on these Reddit cross posts - zero. It’s just bot spam clutter that no one cares to engage with. In my books, that’s a net negative and that’s without considering what the other person said about bot accounts being used as a divisive tool.
