• NotAnOtter@lemmus.orgEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I’m new to this platform and not finding that in the community or general search. How do I access that?

  • solidheron@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    More like reddit has so much content it dwarf’s lemmy, but it was bound to happen, you can always mute the bots

  • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
    94·
    6 days ago

    Good. Lemmy needs more content. I hate that I miss out on so much by being here, but I can’t go back to reddit. Therefore I welcome the bots with open arms.

      • NotAnOtter@lemmus.orgEnglish
        12·
        6 days ago

        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.

      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        5·
        6 days ago

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

      • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        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…

          • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            No, just the good reddit content, lol
            Like what is shown in OP’s screenshot. Niche content too, 'cause that pretty much doesn’t exist here. We desperately need it.

    • QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      I’m ok with that if it’s on a separate instance that’s easy to block/hide (which has been happening already). Where I take issue is bots taking over communities where humans post.

  • auzy1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    8 days ago

    Yep. I see this all over the new feed.

    It’s stupid just reposting 100% from another place. If I wanted that, I’d just go there.

    • [deleted]@piefed.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 days ago

      I do like that posters who seem ro manually post filter the stuff from other sites which in my opinion increases the average quality of posts. Reddit is a tidal wave with a few gems. The fediverse is mostly the gems, like using cheesecloth in a strainer.

  • Cris_Citrus (he/him <3)@piefed.zipEnglish
    794·
    8 days ago

    A day ago he reposted a meme about a doctor raping a woman because her credit card was declined and she couldnt pay for care.

    Thats VILE.

    In addition to the slimy pretending that his posts are organic traffic by not just marking his account as a bot, he is also importing the culture of casual sexism from reddit to the threadiverse.

          • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            52·
            7 days ago

            The solution is for all these people complaining to post new, original content every day and give lots of engagement with each one. Since that takes a shit ton of effort and most people work and have lives outside of the internet, they’re unwilling to do that because it would be a full time job, but they’ll still complain about it and demand that someone else fix it for them.

            • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
              4·
              7 days ago

              I don’t expect it from everyone every day. You just need a few people at a time.

              Better ways to search for or pay attention to niche communities might help too. Scaled seems like its supposed to attempt to give them more focus but I don’t think it works very well when I have tried it. Problem is if I sub to 50 tiny communities and 1 popular one, my subscribed feed is dominated by the popular one and anything else will be drowned out.

    • TheShamMirrors@lemmy.todayEnglish
      12·
      8 days ago

      I’ll drop everything and come to piefed right now. On god.

      Question though: How or will you differentiate between people who are scheduling mass posts from reddit from people who just saved memes that also happened to be there?

      • Bumrocky@lemmy.world
        English
        4·
        8 days ago

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

    • LordMayor@piefed.socialEnglish
      5·
      8 days ago

      If you can detect it, you could auto ban them, no?

      I think a rule against serial reposting would be fine and, probably, popular.

      • SolSerkonos@piefed.socialEnglish
        11·
        8 days ago

        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.

      • Despair@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        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.

        • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
          81·
          7 days ago

          Yes the screenshot is just the user settings. Admins are going to have to manually designate accounts as reposters because I haven’t even tried to make an automated detection. That would be very hard to get right.

          • SourGumGum@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            How is this any different to a user blocking them directly? What a useless feature.

            Edit: Really? Trying to mark me as a bot or possibly dox my IP by visiting your link because I thought it was a bad idea?

      • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
        31·
        7 days ago

        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.

        • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          And you’re leaving this up to individuals, not your judgement, right? If so, good idea. If not, eww.

          • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
            32·
            7 days ago

            Individuals, yeah. Instance admins are going to need to designate reposters if they refuse to self-designate (and Lemmy doesn’t have functionality for them to do that, except as a bot) and then it’s up to individuals to decide whether they filter out reposters or not.

            • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              2·
              7 days ago

              Oh, so you’re leaving the labeling to instance admins, not individuals. That’s problematic, but you do you.

              • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
                2·
                6 days ago

                The label doesn’t do anything until individuals opt in to filtering based on it.

                We can’t leave it to the reposters to self-identify because

                1. Lemmy does not have the functionality to do that and

                2. reposters are deceptive and sneaky

  • loam@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    361·
    8 days ago

    The worst part is the lack of transparency and credit to the actual authors. Many of the reposts are personal to the OOP, and it feels extra scummy.