Not comments are fine, but I don’t want to see posts without real users behind them.

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    In your profile there is an option for bots.

    Show bot accounts

    Try toggling that. It seems to be on by default.

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      I believe that toggle is just for “bot accounts” which if checked just marks your account as a bot.

      EDIT: ignore me. There’s a bot account toggle and show bot accounts. Idk why I didn’t notice that before. Apologies

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      I feel like this setting would be a lot more useful if it was per community. Plenty of sports communities use bots to set up gameday discussion threads that I don’t want to miss, but I DO want to miss the ocean of garbage reddit reposts drowning out actual human interaction.

      Which isn’t a critique of your very relevant suggestion, but rather a lament that people think that communities somehow get better when robots are posting junk no one reads.

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    What is your definition of bot? Even if you toggle the “I’m a bot option” off you can still access the API using a programming interface. Thus you are able to run a bot even if its account has not been defined as a bot.

    It is probably possible to create a client (like Jerboa or Lemmy-UI) that is able to hide messages from accounts that are defined as a bot. But if a account hasn’t been defined as a bot, its messages will still show up, even if they are written by an automated script.

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    I get why you might want to, however there are a decent number of bots right now working on posting up content to Lemmy from either reddit or a stockpile somewhere. I’m working on a bot right now for my private instance that would post a few stores up pictures a day of my dog until it exhausts it’s supply just to start stimulating my feed more. That’s just an example from me, but the way I see it bot content posters aren’t the worst for the health of Lemmy right now as it continues to grow.