2y ago

Is it a good idea to enable "show bot accounts" on lemmy?

I have disabled it for myself but want to know what others have experienced.

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There are many helpful bots, like the one that corrects community links to be instance-neutral.
- Thanks! It's nice to see a random praise for one's work!
- Question: Are those "bot accounts" flaired to identify them?
  
  Those that are actually helpful are. Those that try to scam you and pretend they're human aren't flaired. So by unchecking you're only getting rid of the useful bots.
  
  I think any true "bot" would be flaired correctly. I blocked any bots I did not like, including @bot@lemmit.online
- Ok. I'll try enabling it and see the difference.
Bad bots won't mark themselves as bot accounts so it's lore a case of if you want to see things like reminder bots etc
- Disagree. If that were the case then the evil bit would be entirely redundant
- The reason why I made this post was my subscribed feed was being filled with lot of posts from https://lemmy.world/c/digitalart and https://lemmy.ml/c/memes, and I didn't like the fact that these two prominently stayed on my feed. Unless post from other communities weren't highly rated, they weren't showing up, where I'm more interested in seeing new posts from niche communities.
  I'm facing the same issue what I was facing with Reddit where important posts from smaller communities were getting skipped from my feed. Which I find very undesirable.
  Althought I appreciate the memes and the artwork, I had to unsubscribe from them. Which is giving me better results.
  
  Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !digitalart@lemmy.world, !memes@lemmy.ml
Theres a setting to hide bot accounts?
I have been frustrated with how many repost bots are across various instances. And why theres so god damn many “sports-team-name_bots”
- Yep, just found it the moment I realized it was a thing in this thread - go to your account settings and you'll find an option to unselect bot accounts
  I wish there was a way to just mark bot accounts...like finding out it's a bot doing most the posting in TIL...wtf is that? If the community needs a bot to grow it, perhaps it's not an important community on Lemmy at this time? Perhaps there's another sub that's going to grow more organically? In which we will infact learn something today?
  Just want bot-less communities (other than fun/helpful ones that aren't Grond) that aren't headed by greed. Jfc.
  /rant
  
  The whole drive to recreate every single subreddit by any means necessary is misguided. Lemmy should be its own place, not a facsimile of Reddit.
  
  Where abouts? The only option I see is “bot account” tick box which I have switched off (but still see bots). I thought that option was whether you are a bot account?
- Note that you can block specific accounts it you want. If you see an irritant you can block it.
I haven't seen any botspam really, just a helpful bot that fixes links to other Lemmy communities.

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