For example: Funzobot, News bot, and Finance bot.

  • renegadesporkAEnglish
    9·
    3 months ago

    Bots are fine on any platform as long as they are clearly labeled and easy to filter out if you prefer.

  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    8·
    3 months ago

    Doesn’t bother me. You can always block them individually like users if they are cluttering up your feed.

  • aislopmukbang@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    3 months ago

    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.

      • Pronell@lemmy.world
        2·
        3 months ago

        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.

      • trashcan@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        3 months ago

        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