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PSA: If you're tired of political posts in Technology, block user L4s (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by themurphy@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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First of all, L4s (sorry misspelled in titel) is not a real user, so no harm done here.

It's an automatic bot xposting from reddit, making this community just as bad as r/technology, which kind frankly only revolves around politics and social media platforms.

I've had the user blocked 2 weeks now, and this community is muuuuch more enjoyable and is actually about technology now.

Just wanted to share a positive experience.

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[–] canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 116 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I'm so tired of reddit crossposts, they're fucking useless.

[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I came here to avoid Reddit.

Now I get their posts like non-interactive ads.

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[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 22 points 9 months ago

Yeah I'm here to talk to people, not read bot posts

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago

I forgot about those. Just blockbthe bot that posts them.

I can see how they were useful when Lemmy was smaller. But now there's enough content for me to browse that I don't miss those reddit cross posts.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 52 points 9 months ago (1 children)

First of all, L4s (sorry misspelled in titel) is not a real user, so no harm done here.

FYI: You can edit titles here, unlike Reddit.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Thanks, unfortunately it's not possible in my client Boost for Lemmy.

Edit: Nvm, found it through my desktop. Thanks again!

[–] eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com 51 points 9 months ago (4 children)

You can also make it so you don't see any bot accounts at all, makes the experience 10x better.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 49 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

There's a discussion about bots posting on HackerNews but feel free to comment here

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

What is hacker news I keep seeing titles with discussion on hacker news only place I've ever heard it

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News

[–] odium@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

hackernews.com

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I didn't realise hackernews had an actual dedicated domain name. I've only ever accessed it from news.ycombinator.com

[–] odium@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago

It just redirects to that.

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[–] fishos@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago

Which for awhile, this user(L4s) insisted on not labeling his bot as such because he felt his was special and deserved to be seen above others. Only after being massively called out did they fix it. But it left a bad taste in my mouth and I've had them blocked since, including their personal account. While the setting is useful, some users still need to be called out.

[–] wildginger@lemmy.myserv.one 21 points 9 months ago

Is there a whitelist for that? Some of the bots are actually kind of useful

[–] jungle@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How?

[–] radix@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

There's a checkbox in your Lemmy account settings to allow/block all bot accounts. Only works if they identify themselves as such, so it's not foolproof, but it's better than nothing.

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

In your account settings, uncheck "Show Bot Posts".

The one annoying thing is that if a bot replies to you (particularly the PeerTube bot) it can be tricky to clear the notification. There's no clear all button on the website, but there is in Jerboa.

[–] LavaPlanet@lemmy.world 32 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Omfg. It put up an anti Vax post about eradicating autism. Holy fk.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

just ban the thing

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[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

As an aside, you can edit your submission title on lemmy/kbin/mbin.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Thanks! I'm using Boost for Lemmy, and I can't really find the option here. Maybe it's not included in the app.

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Should I also block L4sBot?

[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's the same guy.

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

It was easier for me to find this guy by just going into community posts instead of a search, thanks

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago

I went looking for a post by them to block them. Turns out I already did.

[–] BackpackCat@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Thank You! Honestly I think one of the things I like a lot about lemmy, and the fediverse, is the ability to easily block users, communities, and whole instances I don't want to interact with a all. Everytime someone complains about seeing too many foreign meme or whatever I wonder if they have tried the blocking features to trim down the timeline.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[–] reddwarf@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

How do you, as a user, block an entire instance? As far as I know only an owner of an instance can block (de-federate) another instance. I would love being able to block an instance as a user though.

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 13 points 9 months ago

You a real one

[–] elias_griffin@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Really odd some Lemmy choices, allowing News Aggregation Posts (Simple link and summary) from a particular user that is somehow not flagged a bot/influencer/paid. I duna know how you can post Tech News Links 10 times a day, every day, for 5 months and still be allowed to post as a "person".

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[–] sndrtj@feddit.nl 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

L4s should be banned. Who controls it? What is their agenda?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Their agenda is "noble" (keep the content flowing here), but the reality is what the OP mentioned. I stopped going to the technology reddit sub because it was tiring to sift through the doomscrolling.

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[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Omg I had not noeall those posts were from the same bot..thanks!

[–] LinusOnLemmyWld@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

thank you for your service

[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Thanks for the tip!

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How does that bot work?

[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure, but my best guess is that it scrapes top daily posts on r/technology and reposts them here.

It's a good idea for other subreddits actually, but r/technology is a shitshow.

[–] vaxcruor@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Ty!

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 9 months ago

Did that long ago, along with other repost bots, and my experience improved significantly

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] themurphy@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Thanks, unfortunately it's not possible in my client Boost for Lemmy.

Edit: Nvm, found it through my desktop. Thanks again.

[–] LWD@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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