Already blocked the ass

I would if I wanted to, but I don't so I won't.

Yeah, all the gender wars and incel garbage is pretty much just him

https://sh.itjust.works/post/67242461 The post I was referring to

Oh, I see I cut the head off of a Hydra.

I hate the reddit reposts where the only interaction is on reddit .. that defeats the point of lemmy\fediverse?

The idea that you're thinking of moving to PieFed is hysterical. It really all makes sense now. Youre a shitlib "progressive" Democrat who has a lot tk say about "capitalism" and thinks anyone who identifies as a socialist is faking it. You are literally the perfect demographic for PieFed. Lmfao. I'm dead.

I wouldn't like a blanket rule like that. I think that dropdown menu in the screenshot is perfect. Especially if paired with a toggle in the community settings that lets the mods ban posts from them entirely.

Isn't that just a client side filter, would be up to whoever runs the community/instance rules for handling bot accounts, and if they feel the accounts should be banned.

It's manually-applied and reversible. I can't reliably code an automatic reposter detection system because they're all different. It's going to have to be a human judgement.

Similar to labelling things as AI-generated or NSFW - being a reposter isn't necessarily bad. It just means that people who don't mind whether they see it can do so and those who don't want to can avoid it, without the conflict that ensues when people with different needs and tastes are forced to share space.

Not yet, this functionality isn't running on a live server.

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I think that's a bad analogy for a few reasons. First, all the examples you've posted are specifically meme template-friendly subs, which makes sense since they're inherently easy to repost. I don't think think a baking community would have that problem. But even if it did, you could just start a new baking community that bans reposts? Given how unpopular repost bots are, I assume your anti-repost baking community would be more popular than the hypothetical pro-repost baking community that your posts are buried in. Assuming that repost bots are drowning out more organic content, which prima facie doesn't seem to be the case in either community you screenshotted as examples. Both seem like pretty solid examples of their being no other content.

Structurally speaking, up and down votes should ideally, roughly sort posts by quality. A post being buried (unpopular) in a community isn't necessarily a bad thing.

If fear of not getting enough internet points is what's keeping someone from posting, that's more on them.

That's a very fancy way of saying, "I bake the middest of mid bread." And I approve

The canary sings despite the cage. You don't have to sing to anyone except for when you want to

Oh yeah, no, that shouldn't happen.

Are they? I've been seeing that account posting for quite a while.

Yeah, that's true. Thinking about it more 'just block them' only really works if they aren't most of the platform. I make most of my posts to encourage discussion, and I don't see repost bots doing much to that end.

I think it can work for meme/shitpost type communities. But anything hobby related you really need to add something to prompt actual discussion.

Although if you have a bot doing it there isn't even any quality control.

Quality of engagement is important, you're right. By the time I'd written everything out I'd already mostly thought myself almost all the way to being against bots, but this makes sense. Taking your position, bots gotta go.

That's what was giving me so much uncertainty in either direction, there's always some gulf between how people act and what they say they want. You have to come at it not just from a metrics angle, but with a little wisdom as well. I think sure, people upvote bots like crazy and that's probably why Reddit doesn't get rid of them because it helps their metrics. We don't rely on that financial model, and bots probably do stifle genuine discussion to some degree by sheer noise:signal. I could be swayed still, but I'd need to see solid evidence to show that bots actually help communities thrive. It's probably highly contextual as well, some types of !c probably benefit from bots more than others would, but any bots will tend to dominate an /all feed.

Pinned threads solve for perpetual topics within (specific) communities sure, but the main area where too many repost bots will do the most harm if left unchecked is when cruising all or local. People who sort by new are the lifeblood of a feed's (federated) community, and if there's not enough of them to boost the most valuable signals, the (federated) community won't grow and might even shrink.

an internet problem

It almost certainly is, Both Sanitation and Time2lose use the term "reddit agent" when people point out the automated reposts.

Yeah never been a fan of drive-by posting myself.

Truth be told, I was kind of hoping for a reply of "use this client, it does exactly that!" I'll let you know if someone gives me one.

Of course, but the problem is that new users come here, see a sea of repost bots, and then conclude that its a ghost town.

Don't call out that, cus that's just as hateful as hate! /s

Or something like that I presume.

It's not* even tolerance paradox shit (which only exists if you misunderstand what tolerance is), it's full blown normalization of biggoted behavior.

Show your work

Ah i see, and i did, thank you. I now also see the little chip icon, i saw that before and did not realise what it was. I am an idiot.

beep bop!

it would be funny when it turns out that it was all some indian outsourcers.

sorry, my page reloaded while editing and I assumed it hadn't sent.

I remember seeing someone being a dick to a post you made and I was upset about it. So I must say I haven't concluded that you are dreadful yet.

yeah but it's a nice kind of dreadful. like a smallpox pustule with a smiley face drawn on it.

Whats a self?

Yeah I know what job it does I'm more asking why does a bot the repost even exists (yes to repost) Idk just never seen a repost bot before just crazy how out of handle everything on the internet is now days (is there anything we can do) or do we just sit and watch the world burn??

Well the bot in the screenshot is marked as a bot

But reddit rejects people for utter nonsense reasons. If you just use it enough you'll eventually stumble into something that irks the wrong admin or gets caught by their word filter. So the "Reddit rejected" set is really just a random sampling of power users. Of that set, the hateful degenerates are driven towards X imo.

I rejected reddit when they did RIF and Apollo dirty. I would still like the reddit content.

No, by "I can't", I mean that I don't want to go back to reddit. Dodging a ban is easy, but fuck reddit. I can't stand all the low IQ MAGA-types and general American stupidity there. At least Lemmy's conservatives have enough brain cells firing that you can have a proper debate with them...

Mods need to be better on this. It isn't hard.

It was only a matter of time before they found a way to get rid of the mods. They were always too much of a variable that the company could not control.

They’re using the ignorance defense.

If they don’t use reddit how do they know is a repost?

(The answer is a little intelligence and a bit of common sense).

Ah lol, my bad. Yeah I haven't seen much of it but most of the sloppers and slopper instances have me blocked so maybe thats why. Or maybe nobody on my instance follows to any of the affected feeds.

I hate those so much!

They provide more low quality reddit slop. I would actually like to see more text based discussions rather than endless memes. Or a picture of something you have made and a discussion about it.

I think its in DIY someone has been posting a few times about making various things from cardboard and glue. More stuff like that!

If that were true, there wasn't a lack of anything to engage to begin with. Therefore your premise must be wrong. I like the bots, they should be marked as a bot and you should just ban them on a personal and sub level. Then all of you annoyed by them just ignore them and everyone else sees content they might engage with, without the need for reddit.

All the posts in the OP seem to have generated engagement though. Just because the poster is a bot doesn't mean all comments are.

I was just saying this last night to your mom. She was quiet though given her mouth was full.

My phone has a 5.7" screen which is about as normal as it gets. It's the very first thing I change when I get a new phone.

Funny you say that because your UI scaling looks exactly the same as mine when I scale your screenshot to fit my screen.

BTW, what's with all that wasted whitespace in your Lemmy app? You could easily fit twice as many posts there!

That's what I'm saying!!! Thank you; I thought I was going crazy. I can't believe my fellow Lemmings are this against changing your UI scaling to actually match the screen you have...

Don't be a dick; this is the very first setting I change when I get a new phone, and I can't be alone in this. So no, it's not a waste of time.