As for having the bots in another instance, people are going to go to the instance with the most content, and that would be the bot instance. Do we really want to drive the users away?
As for different communities, people who don’t want to see bots can disable them in the user settings, so the communities wouldn’t change for them. I don’t see the point in having bot communities.
I don’t agree that a bot would steal content. Content creators need exposure and they post for free on Reddit, so why wouldn’t they want the same here?
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There is a list of federated and blocked instances on the bottom of the page. https://latte.isnot.coffee/instances
Also this script is to see which instances block or are blocked by the instance you choose.
I’m honestly more confused than I was before. With so many opinions, I don’t know how this could ever be implemented in a way that satisfies people.
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This reminds me of the Black Mirror episode where everyone’s social status was determined by their ratings.
Yeah you are right! I’m sure you can do better.
Not taking it personally.
I would also appreciate the ability to customize, but it would be helpful to begin with a curated list of instances for each topic.
Yeah, couldn’t agree more.
Why don’t you read the issue? It’s in lemmy-ui, so it’s clearly client-side. So just because you want to waste your time going through hundreds of instances to find similar communities, do we have to force everyone else to do the same?
I would prefer something pre-made for convenience but that can be modified by each user to adjust to their preference. I’d rather have a generalist solution forced on me than have to spend countless hours grouping communities from hundreds of instances.
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There could be conflicts between hashtags, as a hashtag for one community may not have the same meaning for another community. This would result in mixing topics and potential confusion.
No, I assume that the bots would only repost the most highly voted content. If a bot were to post everything, including low-quality content, the moderators could simply ban it.