It’s just a bunch of bots set up by the admin to post blogspam that literally noone is interested in. For those of us who follow /all it’s very noisy, and seems to be getting worse by the day.
Once blacklisting has been implemented this shouldn’t be a problem anymore, but would there be any objection to unlinking it until then?
Hey guys, I’m the admin at lemmy.glasgow.social, just been made aware of this post. I wanted to respond:
I want people to use, for example, https://lemmy.glasgow.social/c/strathbungo as a place to discuss the Strathbungo area in Glasgow - and I’m actively trying to introduce people to the platform.
Until people are made aware of that particular community and it fills with relevant user supplied content, there is a bot that sumarises the RSS feed of a local website (The Bungo Blog) - I was planning to add any other sources that were relevant.
Maybe this isn’t how I should be using Lemmy, it just made sense to me as a way to attract people as a good resource.
I’m more than happy to tag these accounts as bots, or make the posts local only - or whatever I’m able to do (now, or when it’s made available) - just let me know, thanks!
Hey. Thanks for joining in.
I certainly don’t want to tell you how to run your own instance, but speaking for myself, if I were interested in the Glasgow area the bots would have the opposite effect on me. It’s like filling up a street with cars to create “life”. It does certainly create movement, but not what I would in any way call “street life”. I don’t want to interact with cars, or people in cars, and the noise it brings detracts from all other positive aspects of the street. In more practical terms I think it’ll also spread the discussion too thin.
But even if it was a good way to attract and engage people, I think it might still be too early to federate the instance. Once there’s better filtering tools in place it should fine, but as of now it really overwhelms all other instances. Even if I filter out other instances there’s apparently a bug where I get Glasgow posts anyway…
That’s a fair point.
I’ve disabled about 90% of the automated posts (the majority were coming from Glasgow news/football sites) as of now - the ones that are kept are from a couple blogs etc - I don’t expect more than 1 post from them every week or two. But I’ll keep an eye on them and disable any that post more/too often.
As soon as we have the functionality to tag accounts as ‘bot’ etc too - I’ll make sure that happens as well.
Thank you! Hopefully this is all very temporary.