It’s a good bot tho, it doesn’t lie or pretend. Lemmy needs content right now and good bots help with that. They will be taken offline once communities are big enough.
@L4s@lemmy.world is a very well known bot account at this point. Users are able to block each other. I think it will increasingly become a problem if we tolerate unmarked bots, but this is the only one I know atm that isn’t marked as one
Update: L3s made the decision to mark it as a bot and has taken the time to reach out and sort of explain their thought process and feelings and I really appreciate it. No bad blood or hurt feelings or anything, and I genuinely think that there’s value and good intention in what they’re doing, I just had an issue with this one specific thing and it looks like we got past it. No big deal, we’re all adults, now let’s eat some cheese.
The issue here is that there is specifically an option on Lemmy to not show bot account and this particular account does not appear to be marked as a bot in the preferences.
It can post that’s fine, but not everybody wants to see bot accounts. That’s why that preference exists.
Bot account :(
It’s a good bot tho, it doesn’t lie or pretend. Lemmy needs content right now and good bots help with that. They will be taken offline once communities are big enough.
A good bot would tell me they’re a bot instead of a commenter having to do it.
@L4s@lemmy.world is a very well known bot account at this point. Users are able to block each other. I think it will increasingly become a problem if we tolerate unmarked bots, but this is the only one I know atm that isn’t marked as one
They do tell you. It’s that B after the post.
The only B I see on this post is in the url and the word bed.
Huh. It’s there on the desktop but not on jerboa.
Update: L3s made the decision to mark it as a bot and has taken the time to reach out and sort of explain their thought process and feelings and I really appreciate it. No bad blood or hurt feelings or anything, and I genuinely think that there’s value and good intention in what they’re doing, I just had an issue with this one specific thing and it looks like we got past it. No big deal, we’re all adults, now let’s eat some cheese.
The issue here is that there is specifically an option on Lemmy to not show bot account and this particular account does not appear to be marked as a bot in the preferences.
It can post that’s fine, but not everybody wants to see bot accounts. That’s why that preference exists.
But will they really?
If we post more, will the bots leave? Either way we’re being manipulated.
Thanks for the heads up!
I deleted the comment I made. I’m not interested in this sort of bot in the fediverse.
Ugh!