It seems to me that over the last two weeks, the Lemmy experience has been worsening. My front page and communities are filled with Reddit re-posting bots.

While this gives off a feeling of being active, it’s like a ghost town invaded by AI.

But if I block these bots, I also take the risk that I’m unable to participate in actual conversations between non-bot Lemmy participants.

  • pharioOP
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    11 months ago

    I think this is an interesting suggestion but it seems no different than blocking bits individually, which we can always do. So your instance can always defederate Lemmy.Bots.

    I personally think the solution is for the local instances to make a decision to ban such bots. I don’t see their value. People can always manually cross post and initiate a discussion. These bots do not initiate any discussion.