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.
I really agree. I’ve been blocking them as I find them. I think one bot reposting links to multiple communities is not a good idea. Im already seeing a lot of redundant posts. This is the kind of thing that could smother Lemmy before it really gets off the ground.
We suggest that if you prefer not to see the content shared by the moderators here, you have the option to block them individually or collectively.