• @xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    1169 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.

    • @juliebean@lemm.ee
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      409 months ago

      “communities”

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

    • folkrav
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      189 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?

      • Deebster
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        109 months ago

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

          • JohnWorks
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            29 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.

        • eatham 🇭🇲
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          19 months ago

          I blocked the lemmit bot so I don’t see those, but still mainly view subscriptions

    • Zagorath
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      159 months ago

      Block lemmit.online dude. Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months. Or block @bot@lemmit.online, because Lemmy has supported blocking users for even longer.

      • Herbal Gamer
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        79 months ago

        Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months.

        Depends on your instance; mine only switched last thursday.

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      59 months ago

      It’s awesome they keep it to just a few bot, blocking it will clean the hell up your feed.

    • @robocall@lemmy.world
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      9 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.

    • kratoz29
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      19 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