Really wish the people running these bots had the courtesy of setting a basic delay between posts, at the very least. They always flood the entire "New" feed by making batches of posts instantly.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Seriously. I've personally wound up blocking the bot user accounts that I come across, because I'd rather see small niche communities in my feed. But I know some people enjoy the links, so to each their own.

[–] andrew@radiation.party 3 points 1 year ago

I took special care in the technews bot, irradiated, to spread posting articles out over the 5m polling period so as not to make enormous dumps all at once.

[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I just sort by Hot