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Do we really need these many posting bots? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Every day I am noticing more and posts by bots.

At first it didn't bother me as I thought bot posting may incentivate people to comment but since this rarely happens and now I think they are just polluting the communities.

I know I can filter them but I wonder what is the general sentiment about this.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I block all post bots, i think they're useless. Those on comments are fine, like the remindme, piped, link fixer, chatgpt, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I forgot the username of the remindme bot ☹️

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] in 5 minutes

Edit: didn't work 😒

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

@elxeno @lemann (dev here) sorry, the bot went down without me realizing. I just brought it back up 😳