• xmunk
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    10 months ago

    The repost bots syncing vapid content from Reddit.

    “Lemmy isn’t Reddit” but here are hundreds of communities that have no engagement outside of a bot mirroring Reddit content.

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      10 months ago

      “communities”

      kind of a stretch to call those communities, when it’s just a bot talking to itself.

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      10 months ago

      I’ve honestly yet to see or feel those. I however exclusively browse my subscriptions feed, so I guess I filtered most of them out by my community choices?

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        10 months ago

        Some people are insane/brave enough to regularly view all/new. The bottom of the barrel must be broad and terrible.

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            10 months ago

            Yeah, but all/new? If I go to all, it’s all/ top day. All/new is before the mods can deal with the truly awful stuff.

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            10 months ago

            Agreed, in reddit I just browsed my subs and found some new ones every so often. In lemmy I browse all and block communities I’m not interested in.

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        10 months ago

        Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months.

        Depends on your instance; mine only switched last thursday.

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          10 months ago

          Same, and I still haven’t figured out where to go to block instances instead of individual communities

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      10 months ago

      I never knew the joys of spaghetti hentai until I saw a reposting bot on Lemmy. RIP spaghetti hentai bot. I’m not sure why it died.

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      10 months ago

      Wait, the Reddit bot still works?

      How so if Reddit changed (dumbed down) their API?

      Anyway, I blocked that bot since long ago hah