For example: Funzobot, News bot, and Finance bot.
I think this sufficiently sums up my take:
The fact that that’s an option at all makes Lemmy considerably better than Reddit.
Problem is it requires bot runners to be honest.
You can probably get your instance admin to ban any bot accounts that aren’t being honest, which is also a step up for Reddit.
how do we distinguish bots from real accounts?
Can bots respond to direct messages or replies?
In theory you can write scripts with Selenium to do anything a regular user would do. Most bots have limits but it’s always possible to basically write scripts that virtually click buttons, write content, post content, etc.
If we want to, how do we disincentive them?
Doesn’t bother me. You can always block them individually like users if they are cluttering up your feed.
I like the news bots as I’m thinking a lot of content wouldn’t be posted without them. That being said, would prefer more human engagement, but we’ll get there!
All instance banned with prejudice.
How do you feel about down voting them?
Would would the point even be? They’re mindless spambots no one asked for.
On my instance, I just ban them and defederate from repost instances. On my LW account, I was blocking the accounts individually and have since blocked
metawire.euentirely since it’s nothing but automated repost slop.It’s like every couple months, some new joker comes along and thinks “gee, golly, it’s empty here compared to R****t. I bet people will appreciate it if I made a bot to spam out content” and pats themselves on the back for a spam well done.
Bots are fine on any platform as long as they are clearly labeled and easy to filter out if you prefer.
I just block them on sigth, especially the one made by people that think we want RSS feeds.
As soon as I see a few posts from a bot in a row, I block it
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We’re so close to LARPing Bladrunner.
Annoying as shit
I haven’t seen a bot in a long long time here.
Good now, bad later.
Lemmy is small enough to only have useful bots now. Naively, I think policing bot content across instances will grow into a nightmare the day that policing is needed.
When I used imgur, it had 2 bots, this time last year and a repost detecting bot. I thought that was useful, and the userbase over time got sick of the repost one.
When I used reddit, with all of the different subreddits, every dork on there felt like they needed to create a bot for any niche or joke but they made it opt out, instead of in. That was excessive and i found it annoying.
I hope Lemmy stays closer to the first example, or no bots at all.
None of them do their language settings well.
I don’t quite understand. Will you expand on that?
I’m talking about Lemmy bots in general, on any instances.
I view all and have to block bots fairly often as they’re posting things in languages I can’t read in large amounts.
I think they’re supposed to use language tags and are not, but I just block them because of there being a large amount of unhelpful content.
And let’s be honest, there’s always gonna be a ton of that, hence my filtering. But if the people making bots to post content could make sure the posts are properly marked, I wouldn’t need to block them and would continue to see the content they post that I can read.
Each Lemmy comment (and post) has a field for its language to be set so people can filter out ones they don’t speak. Sounds like some bots aren’t configured properly
I blocked one of them. I want humans.
I have bot accounts blocked in the user settings. Bots can’t laugh at my jokes.
