Inspired by the lemmy.ca post, I want to discuss if we should follow and defed lemmit ourselves.

For those who don’t know, or forgot because they blocked the bot, it’s a Reddit reposter instance. It has very low engagement, but posts a lot. About 30% of all posts on feddit.uk are from this bot (838192/2806651 when I did the SQL). It is also by far the most blocked user on the instance, 151 blocks with second being a mere 40.

It also only synchronises with Reddit one way, so if you reply to a post, the person on Reddit won’t see it.

If no one has any objections, I’m going to go ahead and defed as I don’t think it’s worth having around. Especially the way it makes the ‘New All’ feed useless if you don’t have it blocked.

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I imagine the low engagement is because everyone who uses it knows it’s a bot and treats it as read-only

    I don’t think this is the case, others like [email protected] and @[email protected] get engagement, and the latter doesn’t even post memes which most lemmings engage with with little regard to community or user.

    Is it actually causing any problems?

    See my other comment, but nothing technical.

    It’s pretty trivial to ignore/block it if you don’t want to see it. If it’s actually increasing our server bill or anything like that then it’s not worth keeping, but if it’s not causing any harm then why bother defederating?

    It is easy to block, but new lemmings aren’t going to know all the platform features.

    I’m not adamant about defeding though, if people are using it I’ll keep it around. There are other solutions to the issue of new users going to All, seeing a bunch of Reddit reports with no engagement and thinking the platform is dead. Like having new accounts block the bot by default.

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Well I can live without it so if I’m the only person who doesn’t want rid of it then don’t worry