I didn’t join lemmy to just see Reddit content regurgitated here.

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    In your account settings there is an option to show content by bots; unfortunately this only works if that account is marked as a bot. For the bots I have found that are not marked, I’ve just been reporting and blocking them. It took a few days but now I rarely see them anymore

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    You might as well block the entire lemmit.online instance since that is the main perpetrator of these cross posts.

    I just checked - it has nearly 170,000 posts and only 3 users. At some point one has to question whether these posts are even wanted by the general community or if it has just become spam.

    There is no to little engagement on these posts so they don’t bring anything new to discussion. And if the purpose is to enable users to view reddit content without actually going to reddit, there are sites which already exist for that purpose, e.g. libreddit.kavin.rocks.

    I personally dislike when their posts flood my feed so I have blocked everything.

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      Agree. If ever there was a case to defederate from an instance, this is it IMO. Lemmit.online is all spam with zero engagement.

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        Why defederate? They’re trivial to block if you don’t like them, but if some people didn’t like them then they wouldn’t be subscribed!

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    Block the user. It should be just one bot doing it in the lemmit.online instance.

    To do so just, from your instance website, click on his name and search for the block function.

    EDIT: For future reference you can automagically hide all (properly flagged) bots’ posts toggling the “Show Bots” in your profile, but you will lose the useful ones too and the one not flagged will still appear.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)@lemmy.ca
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    There’s a giant number of posts, but only a small number of bots responsible for them. When I see a post like that, I click on the bot’s username, then click “block.” Didn’t have to do that very many times before those posts disappeared for me.

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    They seem to be posting them in their own communities, not spamming them everywhere else. Just don’t subscribe to those communities.

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        1 year ago

        You can just go to those specific communities and block that community. I’m looking at you, !memes.

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    I agree. A few bigger updates here and there about what’s going on, but not constant reposts to where Lemmy starts looking like Reddit.

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      I’m wondering the same, everyone is saying block the account but noone is saying what they’re called / how they can tell.

      Maybe it’s something super obvious like redditrepostbot but I haven’t seen any myself so who knows

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        Okay, thank you! As long as I’m not the only one in the dark about this lol I haven’t been on reddit since the start of the protests, so if I haven’t seen it it’s new to me 🤷‍♂️

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          The bot they are talking about isn’t trying to hide that it is a Reddit reposting bot. The posts from that bot start with some boilerplate like “this content is copied from /r/blah”.

          So if you aren’t seeing this content, there is nothing you need to do. If you do see this content, block the user that posted it.

          Edit: the Reddit bot that I blocked is bot@lemmit.online

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    I agree. A few bigger updates here and there about what’s going on, but not constant reposts to where Lemmy starts looking like Reddit.