First of all, L4s (sorry misspelled in titel) is not a real user, so no harm done here.

It’s an automatic bot xposting from reddit, making this community just as bad as r/technology, which kind frankly only revolves around politics and social media platforms.

I’ve had the user blocked 2 weeks now, and this community is muuuuch more enjoyable and is actually about technology now.

Just wanted to share a positive experience.

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You can also make it so you don’t see any bot accounts at all, makes the experience 10x better.

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There’s a discussion about bots posting on HackerNews but feel free to comment here

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What is hacker news I keep seeing titles with discussion on hacker news only place I’ve ever heard it

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https://news.ycombinator.com/

HN is a news aggregator where users can find and discuss the latest news and submit content on anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity. YC alumni also post engineering, product, and design jobs on HN.

It has pretty interesting discussions most of the time, the comments are usually very technical, but you can find pretty much the average Lemmy/reddit type of stuff there.

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Which for awhile, this user(L4s) insisted on not labeling his bot as such because he felt his was special and deserved to be seen above others. Only after being massively called out did they fix it. But it left a bad taste in my mouth and I’ve had them blocked since, including their personal account. While the setting is useful, some users still need to be called out.

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Is there a whitelist for that? Some of the bots are actually kind of useful

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How?

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There’s a checkbox in your Lemmy account settings to allow/block all bot accounts. Only works if they identify themselves as such, so it’s not foolproof, but it’s better than nothing.

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In your account settings, uncheck “Show Bot Posts”.

The one annoying thing is that if a bot replies to you (particularly the PeerTube bot) it can be tricky to clear the notification. There’s no clear all button on the website, but there is in Jerboa.

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I think an instance popped up recently where every human user marked thselves as bot accounts.

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