[Lemmy.ca Discussion] What should we do about Lemmit.online

https://lemmy.ca/post/1380644

[Lemmy.ca Discussion] What should we do about Lemmit.online - Lemmy.ca

@bot@[email protected] [https://lemmit.online/u/bot] has been subject to multiple reports from our users over the last while. We would like the users’ input on how to deal with it. It is the opinion of the administrators that @[email protected], and @lemmit.online doesn’t add anything positive and constitutes spam. We especially want to make sure we get feedback as we are more likely to be sensitive to bots like this and other forms of spam compared to most users as we’ll often scroll through “All” sorted by new. Here are the options. - Defederate from Lemmit.Online - Ban @bot@[email protected] [https://lemmit.online/u/bot] from lemmy.ca [http://lemmy.ca] - leave it up to users to block @bot@[email protected] [https://lemmit.online/u/bot] Please vote by up voting on one of the comments below. Downvotes will be ignored. Additional comments and discussion is more than welcome. Results of this discussion will provide us guidance on how to deal with other bots in the future as well.

I had already commented on this post few days ago with my concerns about this bot. I feel it hinders the proper movement of users from rexxit by artificially keeping activity and attention tethered to the old site, discouraging the creation of (and participation in) new communities here.

I vote we de-federate from it and ignore it as much as possible.

Im very excited for Lemmy. It seems a bit rough around the edges, but I'm very hopeful for it. That being said... - Lemmy.ca

Please stop talking about reddit. If you want this to be the next reddit, I beg of you to stop mentioning it. Otherwise all this placewill be is a temporary hold over until we all just fall back on what we know cause we keep hammering in the name into our brain over and over again. I think the same sort of thing happened with the original “black out” of Twitter but we all came back to it because we kept thinking of Twitter in regards to whatever new site we tried. If you want Lemmy to succeed, let Lemmy be Lemmy