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The problem on the Fediverse is when these bots post in "public" instead of "unlisted", so everyone gets the posts in the public timeline, which gets overrun by
by progval 7y ago
The problem on the Fediverse is when these bots post in "public" instead of "unlisted", so everyone gets the posts in the public timeline, which gets overrun by bots.
- pferde 7y agoYes, that is exactly my problem with such bots. They turn RSS - a thing which you have to go out of your way to opt in to - to something which you have to go out of your way to opt out of.
- BeetleB 7y agoTo be frank, most of the non-bot content on public tends to be low quality. I didn't think many people follow "public".
- pferde 7y agoI agree on the low quality of the global public channel (both Diaspora and Mastodon have one), but if you pick a good server, the local public channel tends to be quite useful for discovering new and interesting stuff - or people. Once you block all the noisy bots, that is...