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submitted 1 year ago by TurboLag to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

In another thread, I read a user's comment about how the lemmy experience has got progressively worse over the past few months, with a lot more trash content making it to their front page.

Is this your experience? How was lemmy when you joined and how do you think it's changed?

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[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago

Mostly stable. A few communities go strong, many more remain silent.

Bots though. There are a bunch of bots merely reposting links to other platforms like reddit, and it's so annoying. Their posts sit at +0 votes, 0 comments, and clutter communities and All feed. I'm mostly talking about https://lemmit.online/u/bot and http://zerobytes.monster/u/bOt. If anyone knows for what they are good, if anyone likes something about their existence, please enlighten me. From my point of view, they're like a (maybe) opt-out newsletter for which you were never asked if you want to receive it. And apparently people are working to make more bots and create more bot instances to mirror more non-interactive reddit posts into Lemmy. I think that's a terrible development for existing users, and severely off-putting for newcomers.

I also learned over the past months how tankies can be bending the truth and be quick with their banhammer. It's a bit eerie to see them create alternate realities shielded from outside opinions, how all that works technically with de-/federation, various versions of comment sections, and so on.

[-] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I wish I could upvote tits twice

[-] Jed_77@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago

Think your autocorrect has stitched you up there mate!

[-] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I meant what I said! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] MrShankles@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

The only thing I like the lemmit bot for is to aggregate some news links for me, as well as random TIL. Any of the lemmit bot communities that just link to reddit are an absolute waste of my time, and I block them. But I honestly don't see them too much

this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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