Every post i try to open brings me to one of these stupid bot posts with the comments from the post I'm trying to interact with. I've just started blocking the bot account as it happens then i can open up the post i was interested in.
Hey, the Fanaticus score bots are great! The user who crossposted those threads to all the other unrelated communities - not so great. nevermind, it looks like a bug
If this is the websockets issue, it's the same thing the latest Lemmy software update is designed to patch once it's incorporated by instances, correct?
That might be a different issue from what I was seeing. The posts I saw were valid posts in the community where they were posted, but I was seeing them replacing different posts. However, it was definitely a glitch.
I'd click on a post, and the post that would appear would be different. Sports posts for the most part, but not always. The comments would be from the one I had intended to open. If I'd go back and click on it again it would usually open correctly the second time (or sometimes the 3rd or 4th).
My concern is that, say it's an aita thread. The person who is asking, is not even on the other end. It serves no meaningful function as far as discussion and I just leave the thread.
AITA is one of the most glaring ones where the bots don't make sense because of the need for interaction with the OP.
I don't mind it so much with news communities and such since I'm mostly there for the article, not the OP's thought about it.
There's going to be some growing pains as we figure out what an acceptable use and amount of bots is, and while I see a use for them to create content now while the amount of active users is still relatively low, I'm hoping as Lemmy continues to grow, they'll mostly get phased out
Yeah, I love automating stuff as much as the next guy, but I'm not the most keen on this. I think at the very least these kinds of posts / communities should be on their own instances.
I just saw that there's an entire instance dedicated to this:
Lemmit.Online
They don't even accept registrations because it's only purpose is to repost content from Reddit. Is there a process to submit these types of things for defederation? It's fine for this stuff to exist, but it shouldn't automatically be pushed out to the entire fednet.
I'm more just wondering what the process is for community discussions on what is and is not defederated. It's seems extremely shortsided to build a system in which only the admins have a say in that kind of thing.
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