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…

    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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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.