For example: Funzobot, News bot, and Finance bot.
Bots are fine on any platform as long as they are clearly labeled and easy to filter out if you prefer.
Doesn’t bother me. You can always block them individually like users if they are cluttering up your feed.
Good now, bad later.
Lemmy is small enough to only have useful bots now. Naively, I think policing bot content across instances will grow into a nightmare the day that policing is needed.
When I used imgur, it had 2 bots, this time last year and a repost detecting bot. I thought that was useful, and the userbase over time got sick of the repost one.
When I used reddit, with all of the different subreddits, every dork on there felt like they needed to create a bot for any niche or joke but they made it opt out, instead of in. That was excessive and i found it annoying.
I hope Lemmy stays closer to the first example, or no bots at all.
Annoying as shit
I haven’t seen a bot in a long long time here.
None of them do their language settings well.
I don’t quite understand. Will you expand on that?
I’m talking about Lemmy bots in general, on any instances.
I view all and have to block bots fairly often as they’re posting things in languages I can’t read in large amounts.
I think they’re supposed to use language tags and are not, but I just block them because of there being a large amount of unhelpful content.
And let’s be honest, there’s always gonna be a ton of that, hence my filtering. But if the people making bots to post content could make sure the posts are properly marked, I wouldn’t need to block them and would continue to see the content they post that I can read.
Each Lemmy comment (and post) has a field for its language to be set so people can filter out ones they don’t speak. Sounds like some bots aren’t configured properly
Can you even tell a green field from a steel rail?
Are you a bot? Am I a bot? WHAT IS A BOT?!
We’re so close to LARPing Bladrunner.
