Is there anything I can do to filter out bots? I cant see anything else except reposts from Reddit. Its multiple communities too so I cant easily filter it out. Its mostly the bots from zerobytes.monster.

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    1 year ago

    lemmit bot is the main one to block. You can also uncheck show bot accounts in the settings.

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    How many different bots are there? Can’t you just block them?

    There is an option to block all bots in the settings, but some mods use those for regular threads, so that might prevent you from seeing those

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    Sync for Lemmy has filters that allow you to filter by community, user, or instance. I’m not really sure, but other Lemmy apps could possibly have this feature as well. This could be a good way to block the spam bots.

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          Friends, the upper level poster didn’t say that sync was the be all and end all. They provided a blanket statement of “I’m not sure of others”.

          This isn’t Reddit and there are a lot of options to to consume content.

          If someone wants to use a way to access Lemmy and interact, does it really matter what “flavor of ice cream” they choose?

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    @sunaurus@lemm.ee, can we please defederate zerobytes.monster? If you look at https://zerobytes.monster/communities, the numbers are extreme. Thousands of posts per community, but only 2-digit comments (in total! for whole communities!), some have literally 0 comments for thousands of posts.

    Most (all?) posts are mere reposts from reddit. Their “bOt” posts so much, the user profile (when viewed from lemm.ee) does not load, so we cannot block it. It drowns the All-feed for new users.

    Referring to the administration and federation policy for lemm.ee, I think these two lines are relevant:

    Some concrete examples of instances which we would defederate:

    1. An instance which has a 2:1 ratio of bots to users 🤖
    2. An instance which is focused on creating spam in the network
    1. While it seems to be just one bot and a few users, the activity of that bot vastly outweighs humans, by a factor in the thousands.

    2. I’m not sure if it’s their intention to create spam (honestly, no idea what their intention is, really - advertising for reddit?), but in effect, that’s what they do.

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      1 year ago

      Totally agree with this! We need original discussion on Lemmy, not reposts from Reddit!

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    This is probably dependent on how you browse Lemmy but Sync allow you to filter specific users so you could specifically filter bot accounts.