Every day I am noticing more and posts by bots.

At first it didn’t bother me as I thought bot posting may incentivate people to comment but since this rarely happens and now I think they are just polluting the communities.

I know I can filter them but I wonder what is the general sentiment about this.

  • chairman@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I am ok with bots as long as:

    1. The posts are labelled clearly as such that it’s posted by a bot

    2. The account itself has some clear indication that it’s a bot

    By fulfilling this requirements, everyone can decide I’d they want to see these posts or block them.

    *** I block some bots…

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      1 year ago

      Disagree with your first point. If the account itself is labelled as a bot then that’s good enough. I’m mostly on Jerboa and it adds an icon next to bot accounts’ usernames.

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        1 year ago

        That’s literally their first point. How do you disagree with it when you have and use it? What?

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          1 year ago

          The distinction you are missing is indicating the post is from a bot rather than indicating the account is a bot. The difference in that distinction is that many Lemmy readers will not indicate anywhere on a post that it is from a bot simply because the account is labeled as a bot.