Every post i try to open brings me to one of these stupid bot posts with the comments from the post I’m trying to interact with. I’ve just started blocking the bot account as it happens then i can open up the post i was interested in.

    • silicon_reverie@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      If this is the websockets issue, it’s the same thing the latest Lemmy software update is designed to patch once it’s incorporated by instances, correct?

      • NABDad@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        That might be a different issue from what I was seeing. The posts I saw were valid posts in the community where they were posted, but I was seeing them replacing different posts. However, it was definitely a glitch.

        I’d click on a post, and the post that would appear would be different. Sports posts for the most part, but not always. The comments would be from the one I had intended to open. If I’d go back and click on it again it would usually open correctly the second time (or sometimes the 3rd or 4th).

  • BigFig@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How about the bots that are just ripping every post from the original reddit community and posting it to a copy community here.

    I’d call that pretty low effort community building

    • kurwa@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I love automating stuff as much as the next guy, but I’m not the most keen on this. I think at the very least these kinds of posts / communities should be on their own instances.

      • BigFig@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I’ve just blocked the bot from lemmit, it’s hundreds of posts with zero comments or engagement

    • tal@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      A number of people are coming from Reddit. This places the same content here, which facilitates them using kbin/lemmy. I think that it’s a positive.

      • MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        My concern is that, say it’s an aita thread. The person who is asking, is not even on the other end. It serves no meaningful function as far as discussion and I just leave the thread.

        • Fondots@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          AITA is one of the most glaring ones where the bots don’t make sense because of the need for interaction with the OP.

          I don’t mind it so much with news communities and such since I’m mostly there for the article, not the OP’s thought about it.

          There’s going to be some growing pains as we figure out what an acceptable use and amount of bots is, and while I see a use for them to create content now while the amount of active users is still relatively low, I’m hoping as Lemmy continues to grow, they’ll mostly get phased out