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Every post i try to open brings me to one of these stupid bot posts with the comments from the post I'm trying to interact with. I've just started blocking the bot account as it happens then i can open up the post i was interested in.

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[โ€“] NABDad 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's not the bots, it's a Lemmy bug.

Fixed soon hopefully.

https://lemmy.world/post/15786

Edit: websockets issue

[โ€“] ericjmorey 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem was a user cross posting to irrelevant communities. The user account has been banned.

[โ€“] NABDad 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That might be a different issue from what I was seeing. The posts I saw were valid posts in the community where they were posted, but I was seeing them replacing different posts. However, it was definitely a glitch.

I'd click on a post, and the post that would appear would be different. Sports posts for the most part, but not always. The comments would be from the one I had intended to open. If I'd go back and click on it again it would usually open correctly the second time (or sometimes the 3rd or 4th).

[โ€“] ericjmorey 2 points 1 year ago

Oh. That should be fixed with the update to v0.18.1 that lemmy.world is waiting on.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this is the websockets issue, it's the same thing the latest Lemmy software update is designed to patch once it's incorporated by instances, correct?

[โ€“] NABDad 3 points 1 year ago

That's what I've been told.

[โ€“] reichtangle 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks. I was wondering why this was happening to me

[โ€“] Brunbrun6766 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How about the bots that are just ripping every post from the original reddit community and posting it to a copy community here.

I'd call that pretty low effort community building

[โ€“] kurwa 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I love automating stuff as much as the next guy, but I'm not the most keen on this. I think at the very least these kinds of posts / communities should be on their own instances.

[โ€“] Brunbrun6766 8 points 1 year ago

I've just blocked the bot from lemmit, it's hundreds of posts with zero comments or engagement

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A number of people are coming from Reddit. This places the same content here, which facilitates them using kbin/lemmy. I think that it's a positive.

[โ€“] MiddleWeigh 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My concern is that, say it's an aita thread. The person who is asking, is not even on the other end. It serves no meaningful function as far as discussion and I just leave the thread.

[โ€“] Fondots 2 points 1 year ago

AITA is one of the most glaring ones where the bots don't make sense because of the need for interaction with the OP.

I don't mind it so much with news communities and such since I'm mostly there for the article, not the OP's thought about it.

There's going to be some growing pains as we figure out what an acceptable use and amount of bots is, and while I see a use for them to create content now while the amount of active users is still relatively low, I'm hoping as Lemmy continues to grow, they'll mostly get phased out

[โ€“] _pete_ 1 points 1 year ago

I think defederating lemmit would be a good idea, if I want to read Reddit content I would go back to Reddit.

[โ€“] JeffCraig 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just saw that there's an entire instance dedicated to this:

Lemmit.Online

They don't even accept registrations because it's only purpose is to repost content from Reddit. Is there a process to submit these types of things for defederation? It's fine for this stuff to exist, but it shouldn't automatically be pushed out to the entire fednet.

[โ€“] Brunbrun6766 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, defederation is the last resort, but for now personally blocking the bot seems to be the fix for me

[โ€“] JeffCraig 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, understandable.

I'm more just wondering what the process is for community discussions on what is and is not defederated. It's seems extremely shortsided to build a system in which only the admins have a say in that kind of thing.

[โ€“] Ginjutsu 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hey, the Fanaticus score bots are great! ~~The user who crossposted those threads to all the other unrelated communities - not so great.~~ nevermind, it looks like a bug

[โ€“] Wyrdletini 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This has started happening to me too, I was very confused how I kept ending up there

[โ€“] Aussiemandeus 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah theres a fix on itd way but it might take a bit Ive just started blocking the bot apps

[โ€“] kometes 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Uh, the bot isn't the problem. It is the user [email protected] that was the problem. That account seems to be gone...

[โ€“] ericjmorey 2 points 1 year ago

Problem solved?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how is this phone screenshot so big

[โ€“] Aussiemandeus 1 points 1 year ago

S21 samsung i guess. It looks normal size on my phone haha

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's fitting on the screen of my Realme x3 - I guess they just have a big phone?