This is such a bad take. Lemmys barrier to entry is already staggering, from picking an instance, figuring out how what and where communities are, finding ones with any engagement and sorting through dead duplicates, filtering hexbear and tankies, to blocking out porn and other stuff you may find undesirable. With bots flooding communities, Lemmy sometimes feels like a shell left behind from other social networks. Just block them? Sure I can, and may succeed playing bot whack-a-mole, but not everyone will bother, and the discussion stifling effect bots are having will remain.
Lemmy is small but growing, and content bots have a place, but maybe that place should be gathered into a bot instance that can be content surfed at will and need not require manual blocking from every individual. All these quirks of Lemmy are stifling it.
Lemmy could go a mile with content and community tagging and grouping functionality. The fractured state of federation and bot infestation, if it’s to be a feature, needs fleshed out tools to easily moderate in an additive way, rather than manual filtering out. It needs to be useful and functional from account creation and improve with filter work, not start as a bot ridden fractured mess and get manageable after some filter work.
This is such a bad take. Lemmys barrier to entry is already staggering, from picking an instance, figuring out how what and where communities are, finding ones with any engagement and sorting through dead duplicates, filtering hexbear and tankies, to blocking out porn and other stuff you may find undesirable. With bots flooding communities, Lemmy sometimes feels like a shell left behind from other social networks. Just block them? Sure I can, and may succeed playing bot whack-a-mole, but not everyone will bother, and the discussion stifling effect bots are having will remain.
Lemmy is small but growing, and content bots have a place, but maybe that place should be gathered into a bot instance that can be content surfed at will and need not require manual blocking from every individual. All these quirks of Lemmy are stifling it.
Lemmy could go a mile with content and community tagging and grouping functionality. The fractured state of federation and bot infestation, if it’s to be a feature, needs fleshed out tools to easily moderate in an additive way, rather than manual filtering out. It needs to be useful and functional from account creation and improve with filter work, not start as a bot ridden fractured mess and get manageable after some filter work.
I don’t see how “block a user you dislike” is a bad take.
Aren’t there just like two big bots?
No, I have like 10 blocked.
Oh wow 10 blocks or just turning off bot accounts in your account options…
Turning off bot accounts also blocks the useful bots like autotldr though.
Yeah ok but then just block the bots you don’t like or block the communitys.
That’s what they fucking did and you mocked them for it.
Uh… no i suggested just blocking it…
Autotldr can also go away. Clutter is clutter.
10 blocks. I strictly use Memmy, so I actually didn’t know you could do that on the website lmao.