If you block it, it won’t reply to you. If you ban it on instance level, it will be blocked on all federated instances on all communities.
This is a good point. Yet I feel like there’s a point where the annoyance overshadows the benefits. If there’s an annoying bot on every single instance, is it still reasonable to snipe-ban individual bots? What if a server is mostly bots, yet have real users?
I think it’s better not to accept bots at all.
If you defederate, you will block real people on the instance the bot is on.
This is true. But the argument feels a bit hollow when you plan on blocking Threads. If you are willing to block ten million users, why shouldn’t others block your 40?
Yet I feel like there’s a point where the annoyance overshadows the benefits.
The bot is generally liked, it has much more upvotes than downvotes, so that sounds like a you problem.
I think it’s better not to accept bots at all.
That’s your opinion. But clearly the creators of Lemmy itself think bots should be accepted, otherwise they wouldn’t add a flag to mark user as a bot. And in your settings you can even disable seeing any bots, which sounds like the perfect solution for you.
But the argument feels a bit hollow when you plan on blocking Threads.
That’s whataboutism. That’s an entirely different issue than you disliking bots.
why shouldn’t others block your 40?
Because that’s not how federation should work. Sure, block the instance all you want, but you’re actively going against the spirit of Fediverse, especially when you have many other tools to solve it differently.
This is a good point. Yet I feel like there’s a point where the annoyance overshadows the benefits. If there’s an annoying bot on every single instance, is it still reasonable to snipe-ban individual bots? What if a server is mostly bots, yet have real users?
I think it’s better not to accept bots at all.
This is true. But the argument feels a bit hollow when you plan on blocking Threads. If you are willing to block ten million users, why shouldn’t others block your 40?
The bot is generally liked, it has much more upvotes than downvotes, so that sounds like a you problem.
That’s your opinion. But clearly the creators of Lemmy itself think bots should be accepted, otherwise they wouldn’t add a flag to mark user as a bot. And in your settings you can even disable seeing any bots, which sounds like the perfect solution for you.
That’s whataboutism. That’s an entirely different issue than you disliking bots.
Because that’s not how federation should work. Sure, block the instance all you want, but you’re actively going against the spirit of Fediverse, especially when you have many other tools to solve it differently.