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Is the Lemmy experience worsening? How do I block Reddit bots but allow participation? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It seems to me that over the last two weeks, the Lemmy experience has been worsening. My front page and communities are filled with Reddit re-posting bots.

While this gives off a feeling of being active, it’s like a ghost town invaded by AI.

But if I block these bots, I also take the risk that I’m unable to participate in actual conversations between non-bot Lemmy participants.

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[–] paddirn 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Filter settings seem to have the biggest effect on my experience, with the default being the worst and seemingly just showing the same stuff for days on end. I haven’t really figured out which of the others is best for seeing new stuff, but ‘New’ or ‘Top 6 hours’ tend to give better results I think. Then it’s been a slow process of blocking communities or users I don’t want to see. Eventually I assume once my subscribed communities hit a certain threshold I can just filter by subscribed, but for me I still have to go by All, since the communities I’m on don’t have a ton of posts coming in.

Memmy finally seems to be taking language into account now, as for about a week or so my feed was filled with foreign-language posts I couldn’t read. Overall, it seems like a bit more work to get a good feed going than that other site we know, but I’m hopeful it will get better over time.