For example: Funzobot, News bot, and Finance bot.

  • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
    451·
    7 months ago

    I think this sufficiently sums up my take:

    The fact that that’s an option at all makes Lemmy considerably better than Reddit.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    10·
    7 months ago

    Doesn’t bother me. You can always block them individually like users if they are cluttering up your feed.

  • GuyFawkes@midwest.socialEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    I like the news bots as I’m thinking a lot of content wouldn’t be posted without them. That being said, would prefer more human engagement, but we’ll get there!

  • AlexisFR@jlai.lu
    71·
    7 months ago

    I just block them on sigth, especially the one made by people that think we want RSS feeds.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
        7·
        7 months ago

        Would would the point even be? They’re mindless spambots no one asked for.

        On my instance, I just ban them and defederate from repost instances. On my LW account, I was blocking the accounts individually and have since blocked metawire.eu entirely since it’s nothing but automated repost slop.

        It’s like every couple months, some new joker comes along and thinks “gee, golly, it’s empty here compared to R****t. I bet people will appreciate it if I made a bot to spam out content” and pats themselves on the back for a spam well done.

  • Brett@feddit.org
    4·
    7 months ago

    I always enjoyed browsing ‘new’. Both here and on that other site you might know of. Personally i dont like the bots here. They just clutter the timeline IMHO. I visit ‘social media’ for a feed which is pre-curated by humans. I’d rather use RSS if i wanted a constant stream of news articles without curation by others. The problem i see on lemmy is that in rare cases the bot posts still get user engagement which i miss out on if i just outright filter the bots out.

    Its nothing i lose sleep over and the situation as is… is alright i guess. But if i had anything to say and had a choice i would outright ban them. But tbh i didnt think through the consquences.

    • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      I wish there was an option to turn off link-only posts. At least have something in the body of the post. Maybe a quote or a TLDR. Otherwise it just feels like a bot posting.