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I don't really mind them all that much. The communities are easily blocked if you don't like the particular type of content.

Despite the general cesspool that Reddit has become, it still has some good content within many of the smaller subs that are less affected by bots and politics. If I can get some of that content without giving Reddit an ounce of traffic, it's fine by me.

That said, I'm also the type of Lemmy user who frequently scrolls through every post and runs out of new posts. My app marks every post as "read" when I scroll past it and often I clear the whole "top today" list. I don't read every post though. Anyways, I appreciate any way to get more context on Lemmy.

I need it to keep up with medical news from a niche community.

Just block it and move on.

First thing I did. 2 years ago when I joined lemmy. Them decided to remove all not accounts entirely

Not blocked, but my instance is fully de-federated from lemmit.online.

And yes, I consider all the re-post instances/bots to be spam.

About two years ago, yeah. I can just visit Reddit for the one or two subreddits left that I want to see. Viewing them with worse formatting and missing comments is pointless for me.

Some people get value out of it. Others don't.

That's why the blocking capability exists. 🤷‍♂️

It is pretty spamming, sadly it's one of the ways people see people possibly moving to platforms like Lemmy (and the rest of the Fediverse) when the platforms like Reddit become more enshitified, there's got to be a better way than a bot that spams out.

I could at least say it's a bit more okay if it was on muted or something by default but still then it's pretty bad. I want to interact with actual people.

I don't consider it spam, but it's redundant enough to have ended up on my blocklist.

First block on my list ¯\(ツ)/¯

I didn't see this bot, but that's probably because I selected “hide bots” in the settings.

I just view my Subscribed feed, so no.