PSA: If you're tired of political posts in Technology, block user L4s

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.

"see, I’m unbiased!”

What is a fraud farm?

Nah, Congress is a money-laundering front.

Business schools are fraud farms

This made me literally LOL

So much fucking energy cost… so much fucking Earth cost

I’m so tired of reddit crossposts, they’re fucking useless.

I came here to avoid Reddit.

Now I get their posts like non-interactive ads.

Lemmy is basically Reddit it has all of the same community problems

I haven’t seen a single homophobic or transphobic post or comment yet. *knock on wood

Yeah I’m here to talk to people, not read bot posts

I forgot about those. Just blockbthe bot that posts them.

I can see how they were useful when Lemmy was smaller. But now there’s enough content for me to browse that I don’t miss those reddit cross posts.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

FYI: You can edit titles here, unlike Reddit.

Thanks, unfortunately it’s not possible in my client Boost for Lemmy.

Edit: Nvm, found it through my desktop. Thanks again!

Omfg. It put up an anti Vax post about eradicating autism. Holy fk.

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