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I believe there is a setting to disable seeing posts from accounts labelled as a "bot account". (I realize that this would technically also hide all other bots, not just reddit repost ones, but I personally don't really know of any content posted by a bot that I want to see).
Some communities use bots to schedule recurrent posts. Those can be useful, and mostly provide a feature we'll hopefully see built-in the platform in the future
Possibly moderation bots too.
Automated mod actions, Sports game threads, L4s, Hackernews reposts, sales threads, weekly threads are what you might miss out on.
My instance has daily threads. It'd be nice to distinguish between community bot and generic bot. I should see if there's a request for that already.
I want more sports related bots to post, I know I missed blocking some. Roaches they are, everywhere.
I think the TLDR bot has its purpose.
I've blocked that one, I found it was rarely useful.