Time to unblock lemmit.online? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 day ago by SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.ca to c/main@lemmy.ca

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lemmit.online is a controversial lemmy server since its sole purpose is to run a bot that mirrors reddit posts to lemmy. Previous discussion 3 years ago about whether to block it: https://lemmy.ca/post/1380644

Currently it is blocked from lemmy.ca and I would like to unblock it to ease weaning off reddit gradually. If I can use lemmy.ca as my main site with links off to reddit on occassion I don't need to use reddit anymore to browse but just drop in for a specific post of interest.

The main complaint is it can fill up the all category with high volume of low interaction posts. This can be dealt with on a per user basis by blocking either the lemmit.online instance or blocking the bot@lemmit.online user.

Looking at the top 10 lemmy instances on https://fedidb.com/software/lemmy here's who allows or blocks the lemmit.online instance:

lemmy.world        ✅
lemmy.ml           ✅
sh.itjust.works    ✅
lemmy.dbzer0.com   ✅
lemmy.ca           ❌
programming.dev    ✅
lemmy.zip          ✅
lemmy.blahaj.zone  ❓
ttrpg.network      ✅
lemmy.one          ✅

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[-] Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

FWIW we (.zip) have the bot account banned. Its spammed so much the user page fails to load with the admin stuff needed to moderate it. It is by far still the largest account by posts and we've had it blocked quite a while.

The content was low quality and very rarely interacted with, nevermind that the OP obviously never replied being a different platform and all.

FWIW from .zip POV I wouldn't ever unblock it, and would not hesitate to ban a spam account like that in the future.

[-] SomethingWentWrong@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Thanks for the information!

Need to be an admin on a lemmy server to view the banned users using the lemmy API:

https://lemmy.ca/api/v3/user/banned

https://lemmy.zip/api/v3/user/banned

Looking at https://lemmy.zip/u/bot@lemmit.online I see the last post was 10 months ago so it looks like it was banned around then.

So instead of just looking at whether the lemmit.online instance is/isn't blocked but looking if there are recent posts from bot@lemmit.online across the top 10 lemmy servers I see:

lemmy.world        ❌
lemmy.ml           ❌
sh.itjust.works    ❌
lemmy.dbzer0.com   ✅
lemmy.ca           ❌
programming.dev    ✅
lemmy.zip          ❌
lemmy.blahaj.zone  ❓
ttrpg.network      ✅
lemmy.one          ✅

this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2026

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