Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I don't think this is unpopular. Well, at least I hope it is not. Those bots are horrendous.
Have you tried blocking them?
What seems to be popular is the inability of people to use basic Lemmy functions... not sure if because of UI discoverability, or because they really want some algorithm to feed them clickbait mush.
I have. I actually defederated my instance from lemmit. But many users do not have that option, and user blocking can be tedious if the offending bots are many.
So you could say I am quite aware of Lemmy's basic functions, yes.
If I'm not mistaken, lemmit has a single bot account, easy for anyone to block... and I haven't seen anyone else running similar bots.
So what is all this even about?
On Lemmy World we banned a lot of those bots since they are spammy and often post in communities where they are the only user so there is no moderation. So that's most likely the reason why it's not an issue for you.
Oh... that makes sense.
I keep a lemmy.ee account just to subscribe to bot populated communities. I also don't get "spammed", since I only check the Subscribed feed on there, but All looks like a mess.
One of the n-th things I miss on Lemmy, is creating custom feeds without having to jump instances. And for admins to be able to decide what goes into their All.
When I block a bot it crashes the app.
Which app? Seems to work fine for me in Jerboa, Liftoff and Sync. Blocking all bots in Lemmy's account settings seems to work too.
Memmy for Lemmy iOs at the time. Trying out Avelon now. Still figuring my tweaks.