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What are your thoughts on bots and people posting only news articles on lemmy? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by catboss@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As the service grows, I have noticed more and more people and bots popping up, only posting links to a news article and that's that. Usually there is no post, no summary and nothing from the OP but the link.

What do you all think about this?

Do you think it's a good thing, because it is providing content? Do you maybe find it annyoing and if so, why?

I myself am happy when people take the time out of their say to try to provide content, but for me it's a bit low effort a lot of the times. Bots I tend to block immediately and people it they make it hard for me to reader other posts between all their link-posting.

But I am more curious how you all think about this and whether you consider it good or bad.

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[–] ikornaselur@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It really annoys me, especially as there seems to be at least two lemmy instances that are 99% just a bot reposting everything from reddit.. Really wish I could block whole instances

[–] Madbrad200@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Block the individual bots. You'll get rid of them in one go.

[–] ikornaselur@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Oh thank you! I couldn't figure out how to do it in the app I use (Liftoff) but with your comment I checked again and found out how!

This makes "All" so much better to explore, thank you!

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