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When the Eternal September comes, which it will, how does a Lemmy instance deal with bad actors?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

I know it is part of the Fediverse, but I wish bots were a not thing or allowed. I know they are not 'assholes' but I just think they take away from having real human connections.

I think we just collectively need to learn how to act better.

Choose not to respond when people are agressively onesided, you won't be changing their minds.

We cannot control assholes or trolls, but we can control our behaviors. Stay kind as long as possible, disengage when you can't. Don't let these idiots turn YOU into an asshole.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There were a lot of very useful bots, and you can’t block bots anyway without blocking APIs, and we can all see how well that goes.

[–] Kepler 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I cant see a real argument against bots like that Auto TLDR bot for articles or that summary posting bot for Wikipedia links.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The unit conversion bot is also really useful (almost necessary) for everyone outside the United States.

[–] Archpawn 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wouldn't a browser addon be a better option?

[–] MBM 4 points 1 year ago

I don't want to get an addon just because people occasionally use Fahrenheit

[–] Kepler 2 points 1 year ago

I don't think I can install browser extensions on Jerboa :P

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