I have disabled it for myself but want to know what others have experienced.
There are many helpful bots, like the one that corrects community links to be instance-neutral.
Question: Are those “bot accounts” flaired to identify them?
Those that are actually helpful are. Those that try to scam you and pretend they’re human aren’t flaired. So by unchecking you’re only getting rid of the useful bots.
I think any true “bot” would be flaired correctly. I blocked any bots I did not like, including @bot@lemmit.online
I think any true “bot” would be flaired correctly.
Just FYI: The bot checkbox an opt-in thing with no enforcement, so it’s basically guaranteed that some developer will eventually either forget to tick the box or deliberately choose not to. These are still early days for Lemmy, so who knows how the situation will eventually evolve… but for now it’s basically the wild west.
Bad bots won’t mark themselves as bot accounts so it’s lore a case of if you want to see things like reminder bots etc
Disagree. If that were the case then the evil bit would be entirely redundant
The reason why I made this post was my subscribed feed was being filled with lot of posts from https://lemmy.world/c/digitalart and https://lemmy.ml/c/memes, and I didn’t like the fact that these two prominently stayed on my feed. Unless post from other communities weren’t highly rated, they weren’t showing up, where I’m more interested in seeing new posts from niche communities.
I’m facing the same issue what I was facing with Reddit where important posts from smaller communities were getting skipped from my feed. Which I find very undesirable.
Althought I appreciate the memes and the artwork, I had to unsubscribe from them. Which is giving me better results.
