• makeitra1n
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    1 year ago

    Idk if somebody else notices but there are a few communities with a Bot who reposts Reddit post… Idk but they are pretty annoying since we want to be independent from Reddit.

    • CoderKat
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      1 year ago

      I’ve blocked them, but I wish they’d stop entirely. The reason I blocked them was not even because I disagree with copying content (I’m fine with that in some cases), but because it was just spamming posts that nobody wanted to engage in. It was post after post with zero comments.

      Side note: hot sorting sucks and need to be improved. Why the heck does it like to show so many brand new posts with not even a single other person voting on? If I wanted to see new posts, I’d browse new. I expect hot to show me things that at least a couple of people have said “yeah, this is good” to, first (and ideally more than just a couple).

      • FlihpFlorp
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        1 year ago

        Yo how do you manage to block them I swear I block one and 15 more pop up

        At least they’re labeled bot so it’s easy to block

        • CoderKat
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          1 year ago

          I only noticed a small number of bots that were posting the most.

          There’s also an option in your settings to hide bot posts entirely, but I don’t personally want to hide all bots, just the repost ones.

    • Sims@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Hm, I think it’s more important right now to ‘kickstart’ the missing communities. My dislike for Reddit have to be set on pause. People can block the bots but they cant block it in their feed. For now, I welcome posts from Reddit, but a bit more control to the user would help everyone get what they want.