Technology
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I'm so tired of reddit crossposts, they're fucking useless.
I came here to avoid Reddit.
Now I get their posts like non-interactive ads.
Yeah I'm here to talk to people, not read bot posts
I forgot about those. Just blockbthe bot that posts them.
I can see how they were useful when Lemmy was smaller. But now there's enough content for me to browse that I don't miss those reddit cross posts.
You can also make it so you don't see any bot accounts at all, makes the experience 10x better.
There's a discussion about bots posting on HackerNews but feel free to comment here
What is hacker news I keep seeing titles with discussion on hacker news only place I've ever heard it
hackernews.com
I didn't realise hackernews had an actual dedicated domain name. I've only ever accessed it from news.ycombinator.com
It just redirects to that.
Which for awhile, this user(L4s) insisted on not labeling his bot as such because he felt his was special and deserved to be seen above others. Only after being massively called out did they fix it. But it left a bad taste in my mouth and I've had them blocked since, including their personal account. While the setting is useful, some users still need to be called out.
Is there a whitelist for that? Some of the bots are actually kind of useful
How?
There's a checkbox in your Lemmy account settings to allow/block all bot accounts. Only works if they identify themselves as such, so it's not foolproof, but it's better than nothing.
In your account settings, uncheck "Show Bot Posts".
The one annoying thing is that if a bot replies to you (particularly the PeerTube bot) it can be tricky to clear the notification. There's no clear all button on the website, but there is in Jerboa.
Omfg. It put up an anti Vax post about eradicating autism. Holy fk.
just ban the thing
As an aside, you can edit your submission title on lemmy/kbin/mbin.
Thanks! I'm using Boost for Lemmy, and I can't really find the option here. Maybe it's not included in the app.
I went looking for a post by them to block them. Turns out I already did.
Thank You! Honestly I think one of the things I like a lot about lemmy, and the fediverse, is the ability to easily block users, communities, and whole instances I don't want to interact with a all. Everytime someone complains about seeing too many foreign meme or whatever I wonder if they have tried the blocking features to trim down the timeline.
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You a real one
Omg I had not noeall those posts were from the same bot..thanks!
Really odd some Lemmy choices, allowing News Aggregation Posts (Simple link and summary) from a particular user that is somehow not flagged a bot/influencer/paid. I duna know how you can post Tech News Links 10 times a day, every day, for 5 months and still be allowed to post as a "person".
L4s should be banned. Who controls it? What is their agenda?
Their agenda is "noble" (keep the content flowing here), but the reality is what the OP mentioned. I stopped going to the technology reddit sub because it was tiring to sift through the doomscrolling.
Good tip, already blocked them a few weeks ago due to all the Musk spam, and my feed improved significantly
thank you for your service
How does that bot work?
I'm not sure, but my best guess is that it scrapes top daily posts on r/technology and reposts them here.
It's a good idea for other subreddits actually, but r/technology is a shitshow.
Ty!
Thanks for the tip!