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Defed from lemmit.online? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm curious if anyone here actually finds value in the reddit posts brought over by lemmit.online, since I'd like to defederate from it otherwise.

It feels actively harmful to lemmy, since so many of the posts it brings over are questions that the original poster will never see. It encourages a conversation that will never happen, so if someone does reply they're going to feel disengaged.

The bot rarely gets any upvotes or engagement, and I suspect a majority of people (like myself) have just blocked it. TBH I forgot it existed until Tesseract showed me its posts again.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've gone ahead and defederated since it didn't seem like anyone was in favor, thanks for the feedback.

If you really miss it, let me know and we can reconsider.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The reddit posts are absolutely useless without the comments.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Exactly, and that is one reason why Sopuli defederated from that instance. Having things posted straight to Lemmy would be better instead of clumsy crossposting from Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It’s good for the nsfw subs since the comments didn’t much matter.

[–] cashsky 2 points 3 weeks ago

Speak for yourself. I love reading horny comments and laughing at them.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

I agree with this Idea as it makes it harder to find legitimate posts in the all feed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, seems kinda useless to me and I can see how it could be harmful to Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

I've had the instance blocked for a while now for more or less that reason, I'm not upset about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Recent versions of Lemmy include a admin API function to mark communities as hidden, thus making them disappear from the all feed but people can still subscribe to them afaik. That is a possible alternative to outright banning the bot in case there are some people interested (it seems to be mostly NSFW subscriptions though).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

The bot has so many posts that it's profile page took longer than 30s for me to load, and I had to go adjust our timeouts to get it to finish. It's just going to get worse at the volume that it's posting, I'd rather just not deal with that particular scaling problem yet =)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

As soon as I tried tesseract while anon, I was overwhelmed by the garbage post. Turns out I blocked it long ago on my account.

I'm all for defed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Nope, I blocked and forgot about it too. Defed away!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

It really should bring over top posts only, that aren't questions

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I de-federated from it on 3 of my servers for all the reasons stated here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't miss it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I've blocked that instance myself. I wouldn't miss it, if all Lemmy servers defed it.