If a human posted every 5 min, got 0 upvotes for 20 posts straight, we would ban them for spam. If bots would limit themselves to posting once a day, or once a week, and only post the top-voted non-duplicate post of that timeframe, it would be a dramatic improvement. For once, we might actually see real-lemmy posts along side bot posts, instead of the community being exclusively bots (or 99% bot posts) or exclusively Lemmy users.
I would tell the bot creators myself, except I don’t know how to get in contact with them. Is there a consistent way to contact a bot creator?
I finally went into my Lemmy settings on a web browser and unchecked ‘Show Bot Accounts’ after months of tolerating bot posts. It has made a dramatic improvement to my feed.
There were just too many, and some bot posts that have whole bot comment sections too; that was what put it over the top for me to block all bots.