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It took a couple weeks but I've found that blocking some bot accounts and adjusting the sorting on the app I use has plenty of fresh content with active posts. It isn't exactly the same as reddit in its prime, but I shouldn't expect it to be either.
It's causing me to branch out into other topics and conversations that I probably would've missed on a gigantic platform like reddit. I think reddit made it easy to see interesting content because of how long it had to develop into a community. Lemmy is still a bit jumbled and fragmented, but the community seems to be sticking around and forming a new identity apart from reddit.
Mind sharing which bots to block? Some bots are useful, so I'd rather not hide all bots.
If I did that I'd feel obligated to remove the user accounts I've blocked from my list before posting it and frankly that isn't worth the time or the trouble since I'd have to manually recheck all the accounts to see why I blocked them. No thanks lol.
I think it's pretty easy to replicate what I did with minimal effort though. All I really did was change the 'all' page in my Lemmy app (Boost) sorting to the newest posts. It becomes obvious pretty quickly when a couple communities have 4+ most recent posts, by the same accounts, etc. Most of the bots that exclusively repost reddit content are very obvious with just a couple clicks.
Once I had the worst offending reddit reposters blocked I noticed certain community/instance/users were either spamming content I'll never care about or were NSFW bots, or were too region specific, etc. so I blocked them too. I spent a day or two doing more blocking than browsing.
After that I changed the sorting on the 'all' page to active posts, which at that point was mostly posts by real people again. From there I've only had to block the odd account here and there like I would on any other social platform. Every so often I'll notice a bot post that's slipped through but if the community is active someone else has usually posted something similar that's getting more interaction anyways, so I don't feel like I'm missing out on much I'd be interested in or the stories that are actually newsworthy.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]