• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    The repost bots syncing vapid content from Reddit.

    “Lemmy isn’t Reddit” but here are hundreds of communities that have no engagement outside of a bot mirroring Reddit content.

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      8 months ago

      “communities”

      kind of a stretch to call those communities, when it’s just a bot talking to itself.

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      8 months ago

      I’ve honestly yet to see or feel those. I however exclusively browse my subscriptions feed, so I guess I filtered most of them out by my community choices?

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      8 months ago

      Block lemmit.online dude. Lemmy has supported users blocking instances for months. Or block @bot@lemmit.online, because Lemmy has supported blocking users for even longer.

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      8 months ago

      I never knew the joys of spaghetti hentai until I saw a reposting bot on Lemmy. RIP spaghetti hentai bot. I’m not sure why it died.

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      8 months ago

      Wait, the Reddit bot still works?

      How so if Reddit changed (dumbed down) their API?

      Anyway, I blocked that bot since long ago hah