Bots count as artificial life forms in this universe

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18 Comments

BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y (6 replies)

How?

WhoRoger@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3y (5 replies)

Disable the bots? In your profile settings. Mind you some bots can be useful.

madwifi@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y (3 replies)

you shall be henceforth called Darth Lemmius the Wise.

Tangent5280@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Does lemmy have flairs like reddit?

TheGreenGolem@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 3y

Nope, but they are working on it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1456

WhoRoger@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

I'm definitely taking that once flairs become available

Num10ck@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y

how could we collectively reliably identity which bots are useful? would be nice to enable useful bots only.

brihuang95@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 3y

Good bots follow orders

Hextic@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3y

freamon@feddit.nl · 9 pts · 3y (7 replies)

I disable them individually as them come up, but it's a pain, and can see why people just Death Star the lot of them (is "death star" a verb?).

As the author of a bot that I hope is useful though, it's kind of a bummer.

demonsword@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

I disable them individually as them come up

help a poor noob here please, explain how to do it

freamon@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

It depends how you're accessing Lemmy.
On the website, you can click on the 3 vertical dots near the post or comment, and chose 'Block User' from there.
On the Voyager app, you can click the user's name, and then select it from the 3 horizontal dots.
It might be that whatever app you're using doesn't support it. Before Voyager did, I used to go into my Settings and then search for the user (e.g. [at] bot [at] lemmit [dot] online) in the 'Blocks' sections.

demonsword@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

thank you! :)

brcl@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y

If “Death Star” isn’t a verb it should be. I’ll allow it.

Epicurus0319@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

If you block one then like 5 more will show up in your feed

freamon@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Yeah it's a thankless task. I don't know who it was who thought "Let's start our own Reddit ... with reposted stuff from Reddit!"

Epicurus0319@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

Yeah, at least c/antiquememesroadshow uses a new concept with reliving meme nostalgia, and refugees of r/prequelmemes, r/sequelmemes and whatever the OT meme sub is have united into one community here- as have the state-themed subreddits for Washington, Oregon and Idaho with c/pnw.

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 3y

I personally like bots