I’ve found that I am. I sometimes write a reply, see that it was posted by an RSS bot, and delete the draft. OP doesn’t exist so what’s the point?

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    9 months ago

    Leaving this out of the post body because it’s kind of a side thought: I think RSS bots on Lemmy kind of suck. We get flooded with everything these sites post whether they’re worth reading or not (and most aren’t!)

    “Just block the bots” is the suggestion I’m sure many have…but if an RSS bot posts an article, a human is not going to post it again so I’d miss out on the 20% of articles worth reading

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      9 months ago

      It used to be worse. We would have three different instances with bots reposting hackernews. One guy hosted an instance entirely for bot posting from different news feeds.

      And so many different projects trying (poorly) to mirror reddit content in obnoxious ways.

      On the other hand, the bots reposting old comic strips get plenty of discussion and don’t annoy me as much, so not all bots, I guess.