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I block any and all bots I see regardless of good intent, and suggest everyone else do the same. There’s enough living humans to post news articles and memes. We don’t need bot filler.
But there are not enough humans talking about interesting things that are only being discussed on Reddit.
Besides, "news articles and memes" are the least interesting thing to have in a discussion forum.
That seems like too much effort. Unless someone documents all the bots on lemmy
Just tag your bots as bots and the default "hide bot posts" option will do it automatically. But it requires the bot operators to properly tag their bot accounts as bots.
If people would stop making them, it’s would be zero effort. But sadly, this is where we are.