There’s an option in the web UI to block out all users flagged as bots. Helped me a loooot

How many different bots are there? Can't you just block them?

There is an option to block all bots in the settings, but some mods use those for regular threads, so that might prevent you from seeing those

lemmit bot is the main one to block. You can also uncheck show bot accounts in the settings.

Lemmy needs hashtags like #bot, #celebs, #sports, etc. so that users can apply filters.

@sunaurus@lemm.ee, can we please defederate zerobytes.monster? If you look at https://zerobytes.monster/communities, the numbers are extreme. Thousands of posts per community, but only 2-digit comments (in total! for whole communities!), some have literally 0 comments for thousands of posts.

Most (all?) posts are mere reposts from reddit. Their "bOt" posts so much, the user profile (when viewed from lemm.ee) does not load, so we cannot block it. It drowns the All-feed for new users.

Referring to the administration and federation policy for lemm.ee, I think these two lines are relevant:

Some concrete examples of instances which we would defederate:

1. An instance which has a 2:1 ratio of bots to users 🤖
2. An instance which is focused on creating spam in the network

1. While it seems to be just one bot and a few users, the activity of that bot vastly outweighs humans, by a factor in the thousands.

2. I'm not sure if it's their intention to create spam (honestly, no idea what their intention is, really - advertising for reddit?), but in effect, that's what they do.

But don't you want to literally bring Reddit here? /S.

I personally want to defederate from zerobytes.monster. Straight spam instance.

This is probably dependent on how you browse Lemmy but Sync allow you to filter specific users so you could specifically filter bot accounts.