Repost bots have turned sorting by new in this community into something worse than useless.

  • At Lemmy’s current scale, sorting subscribed communities by new is still one of the best ways to interact with the site. But the repost bots in this one community are generating a post volume which is on par with the entire lemmyverse excluding other “frontpage” style subs like tech/gaming, which means if you sort by new everything else is drowned out by this one community.
  • The post volume here has now has completely swamped the comment volume, and most posts have no discussion at all.
  • The world news bot is also a mod, so it feels dangerous to block them and potentially miss important mod communications.
  • The botit bot is reposting the same links in multiple news subs.

These repost bots aren’t jumpstarting the community, they’re smothering it.

  • d00phy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I really agree. I’ve been blocking them as I find them. I think one bot reposting links to multiple communities is not a good idea. Im already seeing a lot of redundant posts. This is the kind of thing that could smother Lemmy before it really gets off the ground.