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I adore Lemmy, but one frustration that I keep running into is the quantity of shit expelled by Reddit mirror/repost bots.

No one comments on them, they’re always at a low score, and yet it seems like they account for half the “all” feed.

What does everyone do about this? Just block the shitty communities that these bots infest and move on? Block the bots themselves? Block the instances that host them? Is there any solution that would limit their damage to the default user experience?

Specific culprits, for context:

Now that I post this, I think I spot the common problem amongst these…

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[–] icanbrewmushrooms@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have a toggleable 'Show bots' option in Settings>Account Preferences. I'm using Boost for Lemmy, but maybe other clients have a similar option?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's a general option in Lemmy's settings. That only stops the "honest" bots that are properly labeled as bot accounts, tho.