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Every day I am noticing more and posts by bots.

At first it didn't bother me as I thought bot posting may incentivate people to comment but since this rarely happens and now I think they are just polluting the communities.

I know I can filter them but I wonder what is the general sentiment about this.

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[–] mrbonejangles@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

There is a bot somewhere down the feed posting a comment from reddit complaining about there being to many bots lately.

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

We need more people posting. As someone that has tried to make more general posts, it is a job for bots. Posting anything and having to see the constant negativity of the sludge at the bottom is unsustainable. Everyone that I have seen try here, quits. If you have not posted general content regularly to match the bots, respectfully, STFU

[–] Efwis@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

it seems like lately, about 80% of my all feed is the same stories posted on different communities by the same bot. This, IMHO, causes loss of OC posts by users on the feed. I want to block the bot, yet some of the news stories it posts interests me so I'm actually a little torn? I like the all feed so I can find communities I might want to subscribe to, like a lot of others. However, it is hard to find that if the feed is being overtaken by one story on every other post. On the other hand, it's nice seeing the replies from other people on the different communities. If only there was a way to have Lemmy point to existing communities with the same name upon creation.

[–] fucker@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

What's the difference between bots and people manually reposting content? Also didn't lemmy.world ban repost bots?

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