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PSA: If you're tired of political posts in Technology, block user L4s (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by themurphy@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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First of all, L4s (sorry misspelled in titel) is not a real user, so no harm done here.

It's an automatic bot xposting from reddit, making this community just as bad as r/technology, which kind frankly only revolves around politics and social media platforms.

I've had the user blocked 2 weeks now, and this community is muuuuch more enjoyable and is actually about technology now.

Just wanted to share a positive experience.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 240 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The irony:

[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 62 points 2 years ago

"see, I'm unbiased!”

[–] gullible@kbin.social 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What is a fraud farm?

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 115 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm so tired of reddit crossposts, they're fucking useless.

[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 62 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I came here to avoid Reddit.

Now I get their posts like non-interactive ads.

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 years ago

Yeah I'm here to talk to people, not read bot posts

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

I forgot about those. Just blockbthe bot that posts them.

I can see how they were useful when Lemmy was smaller. But now there's enough content for me to browse that I don't miss those reddit cross posts.

[–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 55 points 2 years ago (5 children)

You can also make it so you don't see any bot accounts at all, makes the experience 10x better.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There's a discussion about bots posting on HackerNews but feel free to comment here

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

What is hacker news I keep seeing titles with discussion on hacker news only place I've ever heard it

[–] odium@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

hackernews.com

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I didn't realise hackernews had an actual dedicated domain name. I've only ever accessed it from news.ycombinator.com

[–] odium@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

It just redirects to that.

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[–] fishos@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago

Which for awhile, this user(L4s) insisted on not labeling his bot as such because he felt his was special and deserved to be seen above others. Only after being massively called out did they fix it. But it left a bad taste in my mouth and I've had them blocked since, including their personal account. While the setting is useful, some users still need to be called out.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 23 points 2 years ago

Is there a whitelist for that? Some of the bots are actually kind of useful

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How?

[–] radix@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

There's a checkbox in your Lemmy account settings to allow/block all bot accounts. Only works if they identify themselves as such, so it's not foolproof, but it's better than nothing.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

In your account settings, uncheck "Show Bot Posts".

The one annoying thing is that if a bot replies to you (particularly the PeerTube bot) it can be tricky to clear the notification. There's no clear all button on the website, but there is in Jerboa.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First of all, L4s (sorry misspelled in titel) is not a real user, so no harm done here.

FYI: You can edit titles here, unlike Reddit.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Thanks, unfortunately it's not possible in my client Boost for Lemmy.

Edit: Nvm, found it through my desktop. Thanks again!

[–] LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 31 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Omfg. It put up an anti Vax post about eradicating autism. Holy fk.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

just ban the thing

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[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As an aside, you can edit your submission title on lemmy/kbin/mbin.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks! I'm using Boost for Lemmy, and I can't really find the option here. Maybe it's not included in the app.

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[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

I went looking for a post by them to block them. Turns out I already did.

[–] BackpackCat@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Thank You! Honestly I think one of the things I like a lot about lemmy, and the fediverse, is the ability to easily block users, communities, and whole instances I don't want to interact with a all. Everytime someone complains about seeing too many foreign meme or whatever I wonder if they have tried the blocking features to trim down the timeline.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

You a real one

[–] elias_griffin@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Really odd some Lemmy choices, allowing News Aggregation Posts (Simple link and summary) from a particular user that is somehow not flagged a bot/influencer/paid. I duna know how you can post Tech News Links 10 times a day, every day, for 5 months and still be allowed to post as a "person".

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[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Omg I had not noeall those posts were from the same bot..thanks!

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Good tip, already blocked them a few weeks ago due to all the Musk spam, and my feed improved significantly

[–] LinusOnLemmyWld@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

thank you for your service

[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

L4s should be banned. Who controls it? What is their agenda?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Their agenda is "noble" (keep the content flowing here), but the reality is what the OP mentioned. I stopped going to the technology reddit sub because it was tiring to sift through the doomscrolling.

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[–] vaxcruor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Ty!

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the tip!

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How does that bot work?

[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure, but my best guess is that it scrapes top daily posts on r/technology and reposts them here.

It's a good idea for other subreddits actually, but r/technology is a shitshow.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago

Did that long ago, along with other repost bots, and my experience improved significantly

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