UnmeltedByRainIs there a way to filter out bot posts?
withersailorIs there an option in settings?
If not, no.
I feel like this setting would be a lot more useful if it was per community. Plenty of sports communities use bots to set up gameday discussion threads that I don't want to miss, but I DO want to miss the ocean of garbage reddit reposts drowning out actual human interaction.
Which isn't a critique of your very relevant suggestion, but rather a lament that people think that communities somehow get better when robots are posting junk no one reads.
This is the kind of thing I'm thinking too. Long run it's not a big deal, because I can just scroll past the bot posts.
RikWhat is your definition of bot? Even if you toggle the “I’m a bot option” off you can still access the API using programming interface. Thus you are able to run a bot even if its account has not been defined as a not.
It is probably possible to create a client (like Jerboa or Lemmy-UI) that is able to hide messages from accounts that are defined as a bot.Butt if it hasn’t been defined as a bot messages will still show up, even if they are written by an automated script.