Title kinda says it all. When trying to browse New, cause I like to see new posts and new discussions cropping up, every 5-10 posts it seems to be a post from the Lemmy.online rss feed bot gathering posts from reddit and posting them here. And their is like one new post from a human inbetween. (・`ω´・)
This was rather… Annoying to say the least. It kinda bugged me because it feels like a bot run amuck trying to Karma farm when their is no karma to be earned here. (￢_￢;)
I like to see posts and discussions from the community here on Lemmy. Not stuff from Reddit because a bot is sharing it. (눈_눈)
Now I get it, sometimes their can be useful or interesting things shared by the bot and some people may want that. Some of you use it to get more yiff than you do here on Lemmy and I fault none of you for that. (Though I got an RSS reader on my Fedora install that takes care of the yiff content from reddit for me.) (￣ω￣;)
Now I know it is a problem I have and I fixed it by blocking the bot. ( ´ ω ` )
But it does leave me curious, how many of you use the bot to get that extra dose of yiff or any other content from reddit? Or were you like me and blocked the bot due to how annoying it has become for you? (•ิ_•ิ)?
I use them to keep on top of worldnews and other stuff that’s happening without giving reddit any traffic.
But it’s okay to block them if you don’t want to see it. Fortunately bots don’t have feelings :P
You don’t even have to browse new, it pops up all over. And there’s never anyone posting anything underneath.
Hopefully it’ll die naturally in a couple days.
I totally forgot you could block users, so thank you for this! I was split between whether to block them or not but the lack of comments/contributions I think is what sealed the deal for me. While it was nice to get a glimpse I didn’t want to bury the actual user posts here anymore and it shared a ton of subreddits I didn’t really care about. Time to install an RSS reader, I guess!
I get you on that. Exactly how I felt as well. ( ´ ▿ ` )
RSS readers are still very nice. Same information, but more fine tuned and limited to feeds you curate and select. Dunno what operating system you are on, but if you are on Linux and you use Gnome, I’d recommend NewsFlash. ∑d(°∀°d)
Dunno what options they got for Windows or MacOS since I don’t use either. (￣ω￣;)
I don’t mind the bot posting occasional stuff. But this bot posts such an absurd amount that it’s useless
I suppose it’s still useful if you want to keep up on content posted to reddit but are done with the platform…
