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Can we flag bot communities in some way? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So shout out to people behind the Lemmy bots. Obviously, the goal of these posts is to make people feel more comfortable with the content switch. Great for lurkers. However I am seeing some community bots for stuff that feels like it's supposed to be a discussion post but with no OP to discuss. The main candidate being something like https://lemmit.online/c/aitah

The problem is that now we have a community that is, for lack of a better word, spammed with bot posts, and where actuall posts will get lost in the feed. If we could contain these to a bot only community or instance, it would enable those who want to hide them, to easily do so

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

lemmit.online is basically what you're suggesting, a self-contained bot spam instance.

Luckily it's all run through one bot so you can just block https://lemm.ee/u/[email protected] and you won't see any more of it.

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

Blocking doesn't work for me and I don't know how to fix it.

In my blocked section of my profile settings it says

type 'Null' is not a subtype of type int in type cast

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Hmm, that's a new one on me. Are you by any chance using a mobile app? I'm wondering if it's maybe an app-specific thing and you could use the mobile site as a workaround.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't bot usually flagged as such?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, there's a B after the name in the web interface.

[–] KazuyaDarklight 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Boots should be flagged in their name and it's all or nothing but you should have a "Show Bot Accounts" option in your settings.

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