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Repost bots have turned sorting by new in this community into something worse than useless.

  • At Lemmy's current scale, sorting subscribed communities by new is still one of the best ways to interact with the site. But the repost bots in this one community are generating a post volume which is on par with the entire lemmyverse excluding other "frontpage" style subs like tech/gaming, which means if you sort by new everything else is drowned out by this one community.
  • The post volume here has now has completely swamped the comment volume, and most posts have no discussion at all.
  • The world news bot is also a mod, so it feels dangerous to block them and potentially miss important mod communications.
  • The botit bot is reposting the same links in multiple news subs.

These repost bots aren't jumpstarting the community, they're smothering it.

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[–] sabbah@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

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