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this post was submitted on 03 Dec 2023
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You can also make it so you don't see any bot accounts at all, makes the experience 10x better.
There's a discussion about bots posting on HackerNews but feel free to comment here
Which for awhile, this user(L4s) insisted on not labeling his bot as such because he felt his was special and deserved to be seen above others. Only after being massively called out did they fix it. But it left a bad taste in my mouth and I've had them blocked since, including their personal account. While the setting is useful, some users still need to be called out.
Is there a whitelist for that? Some of the bots are actually kind of useful
How?
There's a checkbox in your Lemmy account settings to allow/block all bot accounts. Only works if they identify themselves as such, so it's not foolproof, but it's better than nothing.
I think an instance popped up recently where every human user marked thselves as bot accounts.