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Who would do such a thing? And why? The poor little fella is just doing it's job...

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[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 37 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Because it does its job terribly. It provides inaccurate information when it would be faster for any one of us to just do a search for ourselves. And when it can’t figure out a source, it still spams the post, instead of just staying out of it. There has been widespread opposition to the bot existing at all, from day one, and the mods seem to have ignored all of us who say the bot sucks and only gets in the way.

It also has links to ground.news baked into it, despite that site being pretty useless from what I can tell. I get strong sponsorship vibes, and we don’t need that crap on Lemmy.

I didn’t like the bots on Reddit, and I don’t like the bots on Lemmy.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Can't you hide bot accounts from your settings?

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