• Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
      4420·
      2 months ago

      Most bots are like ads.

      Everyone can install an ad-blocker. But it would be better if that collective effort was not needed.

      • juliebean
        151·
        2 months ago

        there should be a simple little checkbox in your settings if you don’t want to see bots.

        • davidgro@lemmy.world
          10·
          2 months ago

          It kinda reads like you are saying ‘Someone should create this’ when you really mean ‘It is there if you look’.

          • juliebean
            3·
            2 months ago

            fair point, that was a bit of an ambiguous wording. thank you for clarifying for folks!

            • FlihpFlorpEnglish
              4·
              2 months ago

              I turned off bot accounts because there was (maybe still is but idk) so many Reddit bots just posting links, which wouldn’t be bad but there was 0 comments consistently so they felt more like spam to me

              Edit: this was back during the Reddit exodus when I made my lemmy account

              • juliebean
                1·
                2 months ago

                i found there to just be a few prolific reddit repost bots, so i just blocked them individually. i actually personally appreciate bots like that mbfc bot though.

                edit: fixed a typo